Pliny The Elder Dilema

[MaltedMess]

This is my first post and had a few questions for the more experienced brewers on the forum.

Here's a little back info. I brewed my second beer last Sunday night which happened to be morebeer's Pliny The Elder extract partial mash kit. Everything went pretty smooth except when I transfered my cooled wort to my primary quite a bit of trub came along with it. Even though I strained through a stainless steel screen. I will swirl and rack next time. So heres my questions.

1. The Pliny kit has quite a bit of flame out hops I'm worried about the amount of trub that transfered to the primary and that giving me off tastes as well as grassy flavors if I finish fermenting and dry hopping in the primary. Should I rack to a secondary post primary fermentation to dry hop beacuse of the amount of trub in the primary?

2. If I rack to a secondary will I need to repitch same yeast strain?

3. Any suggestions about dry hop schedule when/how much?

 

[singybrue]

1. Don't worry about it. You can rack to a secondary if you want, but you don't have to. In fact , racking just increases the chance of infection, aeration, etc.
2. No need to add more yeast. There is still enough in suspension.
3. Why don't you follow the instructions that came with the kit?

 

[Mdsutton]

Here is the link t Pliny Clone, which should answer the hop schedule question.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/pliny-elder-clone-296940/

You can transfer to secondary and will not need to repitch.

Getting off flavors is a possibility from the hop trub; but I do not believe it is a major issue. I am betting the volume transferred is small.

 

[TheCollector]

Don't worry man I've done several batches now and I always pour straight from brew pot to fermenter a unfiltered. No biggy, it all just settles out anyway. If your worried give it 3 weeks primary then 2 weeks secondary and you'll be fine just MAKE SURE to be very sanitary during transfer to secondary. And no worries on adding kre yeast you'll be fine.

 

[brewskisteve]

All good advice above.

I brewed a Stone Ruination clone and had the same problem too. I did try to do a filtering with a paint strainer bag around the auto siphon, all it gave me was headaches with a clogged strainer bag and a painfully slow siphon, and adding time to transferring. from pot to primary. I too was concerned about it, but it does all fall out after time.

Also I don't really use a secondary. Like a lot of people here on this site, I do not use a secondary in regular practice, everything just falls out and takes care of itself with time. If you do not use a secondary, then just leave it in primary for 3-4 weeks, it will finish on its own, clean itself up and everything will fall out. It will take care of itself. I have yet to get any off flavors from leaving it on the trub for that long.

Point being, leave it alone and it will do its own thing, it will drop out and clean up all by itself, it just takes some time. Gravity works and yeast do the work by themselves.

 

[brewcephus]

I made this exact same kit, but mine was all extract version. I did transfer to secondary, but realized later that it was really not necessary. As a matter of fact, this was the LAST beer that I did a secondary on.

This was by far the best beer I've brewed to date, but I'm partial to IPAs and loved this beer. I actually shed a tear when I popped the last bottle open.

In the end RDWHAHB, you'll have beer when this is all over with.

 

[MaltedMess]

Thanks for the advice, this makes me feel way more comfortable. I wanted to finish the beer in the primary just wanted to make sure It would work. I'm thinking three weeks in the primary total while dry hopping the last 10 days.

10 days left

1oz centennial
1oz simcoe
1oz Columbus

5 days left

.25oz centennial
.25oz simcoe
.25oz Columbus

-Thanks again!