Anyone have the 3" I did today. Brewed the ZD clone and it had 5oz of hops added in the last 15 min in 5 min additions I use a homemade hop spider with the 5 Gal paint bag that so far has done a good job of with holding all the gunk but today after siphoning into my carboy I prob had 3" of trub, now some was the .75oz of FWH which I put right into the kettle as I'm collecting first runnings but I'm amazed at where the rest came from. I even added .5 gal to top off to my 5.75 goal into fermenter but now I see all this gunk in the bottom I'd be lucky the get 4.5 gal out of this. Is this normal for late hop additions? I vorloufed both mash and sparge till it was real clear I can't imagine .75oz of FWH has this impact. IDK but I'm still learning it's only my 5th AG batch. Hit all the numbers otherwise until I had to add volume due to trub loss but I'll take more beer over stronger beer. Anyone have any ideas??
Pulling trub into the fermenter
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flars
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The trub layer will most likely compact ending up less than three inches thick.
For your next brew try siphoning into a mesh bag suspended over a funnel when you transfer the wort to your carboy.
For your next brew try siphoning into a mesh bag suspended over a funnel when you transfer the wort to your carboy.
Don't sweat it. That trub will probably be less than an inch thick once it compacts.
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