I did not filter my wort from brew kettle to the primary???

[nbt]

So, this was my first batch and upon pouring my cooled wort into primary the screen on the funnel clogged and I just poured the entire kettle into the primary. After a good bit of reading, here on my new favorite site, I dont want to use a secondary but didnt know if I should just because i didnt get a good filter upon transfer. Thoughts?? Also, as I wait, I think i will get another batch going and could use some expert thoughts on using a glass carboy as primary. Thanks for the help. I love my new addiction and love these forums!! Thanks for having me!

 

[Clann]

Don't worry. It will all settle out in the primary and won't hurt a thing

 

[helibrewer]

No worries about the filtering, it will all settle out by bottling time.

Carboys are fine for primary fermentation, just watch the headspace and use a blow off tube during high kausen if necessary. I typically use a 1" vinyl hose with a StarSan soaked rag wrapped around the tube and carboy neck, stick the other end in a few inches of weak StarSan solution.

 

[ghank15]

I very rarely use any type of filter or screen. My funnel actually came without a screen. Most of the hops settle out during primary fermentation. What gets through the siphon will settle into the bottling bucket. The last few bottles from that bucket will have a bit of sediment at the bottom, but that will settle when you refrigerate them prior to drinking them.

If you use a secondary, more will settle out. If you have an extra fridge with room for a fermenter, you can cold crash it overnight or over a few days and even more will settle out.

The long and short of it?
RDWHAHB

 

[daksin]

I typically just dump everything right into the fermentor. No problems yet.

 

[rycov]

No worries about the filtering, it will all settle out by bottling time.

Carboys are fine for primary fermentation, just watch the headspace and use a blow off tube during high kausen if necessary. I typically use a 1" vinyl hose with a StarSan soaked rag wrapped around the tube and carboy neck, stick the other end in a few inches of weak StarSan solution.

yes to both

 

[nbt]

Thanks for the tips. I appreciate it! Think I will leave her be!

 

[Northjerzyg]

I've been wondering aboit this lately. Far as i knew u want clear wort going into the primary. Think I'm seeing a differnece in carity in the finished product this way?

 

[Calichusetts]

I do filter into my primary, just stop and empty out the screen when it clogs or use a double (even triple) filter with progressively tighter mesh gauges.

 

[GASoline71]

Rack it into a secondary after its time in the primary. Then it will really start to clear up.

Gary

 

[RM-MN]

I'm a dumper and I don't secondary. Would you like to come up here and see what kind of clarity my beers have?

The hops and break material settle to the bottom of the fermenter and get covered by the yeast as it flocculates out. This takes time whether in the primary or secondary. Give your beer sufficient time in the primary, use at least a little caution when racking to the bottling bucket so you don't stir lots of yeast up and the beer going into the bottles will be clear.

 

[nbt]

I would love to come up there. Just in the summer when its not so dang cold!! Thanks for the tips. Going to let her sit for 3 weeks then bottle.

 

[jmoney7728]

I'm a dumper and I don't secondary. Would you like to come up here and see what kind of clarity my beers have?

The hops and break material settle to the bottom of the fermenter and get covered by the yeast as it flocculates out. This takes time whether in the primary or secondary. Give your beer sufficient time in the primary, use at least a little caution when racking to the bottling bucket so you don't stir lots of yeast up and the beer going into the bottles will be clear.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[StophJS]

Sufficient time in the fermenter will clear your beer of anything else you dumped in there with it. After moving your fermenter to where you are going to be racking to your bottling bucket, let it sit for a half hour to let it settle again.

 

[verbhertz]

I don't filter, no problems after 7 or so batches. I only secondary for fruit or dry hopping. I normally let it ferment for 3 or 4 weeks before I check gravity readings.

 

[Hang Glider]

+1
dump entire boil kettle. no problems after 70 batches.
Secondary for dry hopping, as the trub seems to absorb too much of the hop flavor when I dry hop in primary. (no fruit in this brewery)

sits for 4 weeks, much like many others here.

 

[Ramitt]

I siphon into the fermenter no filter or screen and only secondary if I am oaking or doing something special. I think my beer tastes fine and seems reasonably clear for homebrew. I have started using whirlfloc and that seems to help some

 

[kh54s10]

I never filter anything. I don't dump all the junk at the bottom of the pot into the fermenter. I have done about half with secondary and about half without. I leave the beer alone for 3-4 weeks and everything settles out! I rack to my bottling bucket fairly carefully and most of my beers are very clear. I think all the estra work is mostly over-thinking things. RDWHAHB!

 

[stargate_to_Earth]

the main issue is clarity according to How to Brew - By John Palmer - Introduction and it also could cause problems in aging (after at least 6 mo) but if you rack after the airlock simmers down and allow it to condition in a secondary then you can avoid any problems.

that being said the only sure problem that this CAN cause is the aesthetic issue of cloudiness...

also if you didn't cold break you may have a clarity problem anyways...

at this point you could rack into a secondairy or just leave it either way

RDWHAHB

 

[cdubbaya]

I've always filtered my wort into primary, at least as much as I could without extra equipment.

I guess for me it was not only a clarity concern, but also residual hop oils. I calculated my ibus for a particular recipe using a given weight and time schedule of hops. When you pour all that hop break into your primary, aren't you sitting your wort on hop oils, affecting the bitterness of your beer?

I might be wrong on that theory, I haven't researched it myself.

If you're not brewing to he concise about a style, then don't worry about filtering. RDWHAHB!

 

[Ramitt]

I've always filtered my wort into primary, at least as much as I could without extra equipment.

I guess for me it was not only a clarity concern, but also residual hop oils. I calculated my ibus for a particular recipe using a given weight and time schedule of hops. When you pour all that hop break into your primary, aren't you sitting your wort on hop oils, affecting the bitterness of your beer?

I might be wrong on that theory, I haven't researched it myself.

If you're not brewing to he concise about a style, then don't worry about filtering. RDWHAHB!

Maybe, but does it really matter that much? Brew beer you like and not worry about the rest, unless you are entering beer in competitions. I brew for me, not you or judges. Maybe someday I will want to try competitions and if that is your thing, more power and good luck.

 

[Butter]

+1 on what Ramitt said

 

[Hang Glider]

When you pour all that hop break into your primary, aren't you sitting your wort on hop oils, affecting the bitterness of your beer?

nope.

Don't you imagine that if that were true, it would have been accounted for by now?

The hops are not excessively oily, and the boil breaks the components we want (alpha acids) into molecules that bond with the water and malt (isomerize). You couldn't separate the hop oils after the boil if you wanted to.

so...no worries!


BTW, it's "hot" break, the proteins from the grain. Hop particulate that settles out has no impact after the fact.