copper2hopper
Well-Known Member
I am really getting frustrated with what should be "5 gallon" or "10 gallon" "batches" and getting significantly less volume into the fermenter and loosing even more when bottling day comes all because of trub. My last two brew days have been this way where a "10 gallon batch" has only produced 8 gallons of what I thought and saw as crystal clear wort into the fermenters (4 each...I split the batch). I even left a solid three gallons of trub in the BK which I thought was way too much and thought to myself "there's no way anyone else ends up with this much trub from a 10 gallon batch recipe". I can already see that I will loose about another third to one half of a gallon in each fermenter due to even more trub loss and/or yeast cake. That will probably put me at about 3.5 gallons or a little more for bottling from each fermenter.
Now I brewed again today with a "5 gallon batch" Kit and it went just as terrible volume wise and I only ended up with about a smidge less than 4.25 gallons into the fermenter with some pretty heavy trub transferred. I can already tell I will only be bottling 3.5-3.25 gallons.
WTF!?!?! I can't be the only one out here who does my boil hop additions via no and just drops them in. That's the one thing I did different with these two batches but even still when I used muslin bags I still had a lot of trub loss where "5 gallon batches" and "10 gallon batches" aren't that at all. I'm ready to just scale my recipes as "7-8 gallon batches" and that way I will be actually putting five into bottles or kegs.
Any advice or reassurances that I'm not alone would be great.
Now I brewed again today with a "5 gallon batch" Kit and it went just as terrible volume wise and I only ended up with about a smidge less than 4.25 gallons into the fermenter with some pretty heavy trub transferred. I can already tell I will only be bottling 3.5-3.25 gallons.
WTF!?!?! I can't be the only one out here who does my boil hop additions via no and just drops them in. That's the one thing I did different with these two batches but even still when I used muslin bags I still had a lot of trub loss where "5 gallon batches" and "10 gallon batches" aren't that at all. I'm ready to just scale my recipes as "7-8 gallon batches" and that way I will be actually putting five into bottles or kegs.
Any advice or reassurances that I'm not alone would be great.