PM: Couldn't get a grainbed to form... husks in my wort.

[Rook]

I'm 17 minutes into the boil of my amber ale, and I just dipped my spoon into the wort, and I saw a bunch of sediment on the spoon. I couldn't get a good grainbed to form when I was mashing, there isn't a ton in there, but definately some husks made it through my SS braid.

Anyone got a beer thats started this way?

 

[Willsellout]

Nope...mine worked perfectly. What's your setup?


Dan

 

[ontap@home]

I've never had that happen....

 

[david_42]

I've had it happen & have a fine mesh sieve I'll use while transferring to the fermenter. Picked it up at the Dollar store. The mesh isn't quite as fine as a metal coffee filter, but it's close.

 

[Rook]

I didn't have enough grains to get a good grain bed to form, and every time I tried to pour the wort back into it, I would disturb the grains and prevent it from forming the bed.

Oh well, its in the primary now....

 

[RichBrewer]

I didn't have enough grains to get a good grain bed to form, and every time I tried to pour the wort back into it, I would disturb the grains and prevent it from forming the bed.

Oh well, its in the primary now....

You need to tell us what setup you are using. It sounds like your grain bed isn't deep enough and/or your straining device is too porous.

 

[Rook]

Sorry, rookie mistake.

I'm using a 3 gallon rubbermaid cooler with a stainless braided line for the filter. I put in 3.5lb grain, I've done this before with 5.5lb grain and its worked great, but heck, even with the 5.25quarts water, it barely covered the top of the grains, I actually added more than the recommended 1.5 quarts per lb just so the grains were submerged.

I'm sure it was becuase the grainbed was't deep enough. I guess I was't really looking for a solution to the problem, since I'll just make sure I don't do any partial mashes with that few grains, more just wondering what to expect from my beer, if others have had a similar situation/

 

[Desert_Sky]

how much did you recirculate before you let it drain out?

 

[lgtg]

it's happened to me as well. (same system as well)

used 2lbs of 2 row & 1.25 lbs of specialty grains (including crystal and cara-pils) and had 0.75lb of flaked oats.

All that I can tell you is that it affected my OG slightly (lower) still had a decent sparge though. Wondering though if dual sparges is what I should have done?