Pouring wort to bucket fermenter

[musicis]

After your boil (10 gal batch) are you supposed to filter out the hops, orange peels etc to the fermenter or is that all poured out to the primary?

 

[mikemet]

after the wort is chilled, you should pour the wort into your primary- and try to leave as much sludge behind. Is that technically called trub yet? I dont think so but you get the point. Whatever gets in will get in- and when you go from primary to bottle bucket assuming you do, you wont want to grab that stuff at the bottom.

 

[codycodycody]

I try to strain out as much as possible, but I don't make a huge deal about it. I'm a fan of cold crashing for a week after fermentation. It helps clear everything up, then a racking cane comes to save the day.

 

[codycodycody]

You could also use a nylon bag to put those in. I have one but again, nothing to get worried about.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

It's all personal preference. I usually strain with a sanitized paint strainer bag, but last batch I just dumped it all in... There are arguments on both sides. Either way, any particulate matter that gets in the bucket will settle on the bottom.

 

[Revvy]

It really is a matter of personal preference. I used to just dump everything into the fermenter. Now when it's chilled I rack it over with an autosiphon leaving everything behind.

But like OClair said, I found if I dumped it all in, it all settled clear anyway with a month long primary.

 

[kh54s10]

You can really do that either way but, you will lose more beer to the trub if you do not strain it. You don't want to strain it after the ferment as this could oxidize the beer.

 

[unionrdr]

I pour chilled wort & top off water through a fine mesh strainer atop the FV. Helps aerate & gets alot of gunk out. More beer in the FV for me.

 

[Erroneous]

Also if you plan on harvesting the yeast it is best to have as little trub as possible.

 

[LLBeanJ]

I used to strain, but I noticed that all that really got trapped was hops and any flavor additives (coriander, citrus peel, etc). Then I decided to try a few batches where I dumped everything just to see how they turned out because cleaning the strainer was a PITA. I couldn't tell a difference so I never went back to straining. I also frequently will re-use the yeast cake and have found that lack of straining causes no adverse affects in this regard either.