Strange Hot Break? (looked like cooked whole chicken livers)

[Imperial1]

Last night I brewed a very basic Hefeweizen. I mashed 6kg of Wheat Malt and 4 Kg of pale malt. My first runnings came out at 1.075 and whilst I waited for the sparge and second runnings I started to boil the first runnings. By the time I was ready to add the second runnings the boil had become quite vigorous but there was a strange scum/foam on top of the wort which I decide to take out with a slatted spoon. When I did this I removed huge congealed clumps of what I can only assume were congealed hot break particles - to be honest they looked just like cooked whole chicken livers and the texture wasn't much different. Whilst definitely not professing to be a seasoned brewer this was my 58th All grain brew and it is the first time I have see this. Was this just a unusual hot break or is there something ominous I should be worried about?

 

[wilserbrewer]

Wheat can be that way....rdwhahb

 

[grrickar]

So that's what happened to my chicken livers! Can I have them back please? :cross:

 

[Talgrath]

Got any pictures? Wheat, with its high protein content, can result in some weird hot breaks.

 

[eric19312]

Got any pictures? Wheat, with its high protein content, can result in some weird hot breaks.

+1 pics or it didn't happen

 

[BlueHouseBrewhaus]

I think what you are describing is what other folks have referred to as looking like egg drop soup. It is definitely weird looking and even a little gross and it's perfectly normal for wheat beers. Something about proteins or whatever. I get it when I do wheat beers. What's really gross is cleaning the slimey buggers off my immersion chiller when I clean up.

 

[brewkinger]

I think what you are describing is what other folks have referred to as looking like egg drop soup. It is definitely weird looking and even a little gross and it's perfectly normal for wheat beers. Something about proteins or whatever. I get it when I do wheat beers. What's really gross is cleaning the slimey buggers off my immersion chiller when I clean up.

Ahhh you beat me to it.
They are damn near impossible to get off the IC.
And yes, perfectly disgustingly normal.