tfmcmenemy
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Hey everyone. I just finished setting up fermentation on my first beer ever, an IPA. Basically I have two questions with two problems I ran into. First, as I was cooling my wort, I dropped a frozen water bottle in it. Fearing that it would get contaminated, I brought it back to a boil to kill of anything. My question is, do you think that the extra boil time will in make my beer taste bad?
Second problem... After the wort cooled, I decided to siphon it into the fermenter, to try and reduce the amount of grains from the bottom of the pot. I had used hops pellets in my brew, and even when I siphoned it in to my fermenter a lot of the hops made its way in there.
After doing research later on this matter I seen that they have strainers for the hops, I guess I should have used one. However, with the hops in my fermenter, will that ruin the beer, or make it taste awful? And should I strain out the hops when I move it to the bottling bucket?
Thanks a lot.
Second problem... After the wort cooled, I decided to siphon it into the fermenter, to try and reduce the amount of grains from the bottom of the pot. I had used hops pellets in my brew, and even when I siphoned it in to my fermenter a lot of the hops made its way in there.
After doing research later on this matter I seen that they have strainers for the hops, I guess I should have used one. However, with the hops in my fermenter, will that ruin the beer, or make it taste awful? And should I strain out the hops when I move it to the bottling bucket?
Thanks a lot.