My Blowoff Tube is Sending Hops into the Sani Bucket

[beardown2489]

Is this normal? It's happened in the last 2 brews.

Will this affect the hop character?

It's a 6 gallon carboy filled about 5.5 gallons worth of wort.

 

[FloppyKnockers]

Normal. You can try blowing them back in, but I don't recommend it.

 

[AntzBrewz]

Maybe dry hop later in fermentation?

 

[drainbamage]

That's normal. If they're hops from the boil, the alpha acids have already been extracted into the wort, so nothing will be lost by their absence.

 

[beardown2489]

Ya. It's hops from the hopstand I didn't remove b

Didn't think I had anything to worry about. Thanks

 

[tooldudetool]

You should make an attempt to strain as many solids as possible out of the wort when you transfer from the brew kettle to the fermenter. I use a nylon hop sack (5 gallon nylon paint strainer bag from HD actually) for all my boil hops, which I think works great!

 

[Sudz_Makenzie]

I too use a nylon mesh bag fashioned onto a DIY Hop Spider when adding hops to the boil. You would be amazed at how much "sludge" only one ounce of hops pellets can generate. I also use one of those mesh garment bags when dry hopping. It keeps a lot of gunk out of the trub which helps if you are harvesting/washing yeast.