Sediment In the Boil Pot

[Dave77]

Hi all! Brand new to home brewing, so I'm sure this a dumb question, but...

I am brewing a Brewer's Best American Amber Ale kit, and as I was transferring it to the primary I noticed sediment in the bottom of the pot. Do I transfer this to the primary as well, or do I dump it?

Thanks in advance from a newbie....

 

[Jag75]

Hey Dave77. Welcome to HBT. Some people do , some don't. I myself dump it .

 

[Dave77]

Thank you!

 

[wsmith1625]

Hi all! Brand new to home brewing, so I'm sure this a dumb question, but...

I am brewing a Brewer's Best American Amber Ale kit, and as I was transferring it to the primary I noticed sediment in the bottom of the pot. Do I transfer this to the primary as well, or do I dump it?

Thanks in advance from a newbie....

While some brewers still use a secondary fermenter, most recipes do not require it. Leave it in the primary until you're ready to package your finished beer.

 

[mac_1103]

Yeah, Brewer's Best instruction sheets still recommend transferring to a secondary. You can safely ignore that. First few beers I ever made were BB kits. I followed the instructions because, well, they were the instructions after all. The beers all turned out fine.

 

[Dave77]

Yeah, Brewer's Best instruction sheets still recommend transferring to a secondary. You can safely ignore that. First few beers I ever made were BB kits. I followed the instructions because, well, they were the instructions after all. The beers all turned out fine.

Yeah, the sheets all say 'secondary', but you guys have confidently convinced me to skip that step.

 

[hotbeer]

I used a secondary once. To this day, that is still my worst beer. Though admittedly I had other issues too.

As to the original question about sediment in the boil kettle, it depends on if it's loose fluffy sediment holding on to a lot of wort or if it's tightly compacted sediment.

Loose and full of wort sediment goes into the FV where it will just become trub on the bottom given enough time.

I have in the past tried to filter and strain it, but hop matter and other stuff effectively plug up all but the coarsest of strainer for me.

Filtering will definitely require a pump to force the wort through it with pressure unless you are willing to wait a long time for it to drip, drip, drip.

 

[odie]

Hi all! Brand new to home brewing, so I'm sure this a dumb question, but...

I am brewing a Brewer's Best American Amber Ale kit, and as I was transferring it to the primary I noticed sediment in the bottom of the pot. Do I transfer this to the primary as well, or do I dump it?

Thanks in advance from a newbie....

Since you are new to brewing, I will guess that you are a ways off from harvesting yeast.

So I would just dump it all in. It will all settle out at the end when you are ready to bottle.

What is in that sediment is trub and wort. Wort is future beer so get it all in the fermenter. Once fermentation is done and you are bottling, that is really the only time you need to leave any "sediment" behind.