Hi all!
I recently got back into homebrewing and decided to do an 11gallon batch with a friend who I plan to split the batch with. Anyways, at flame out our recipe called for 4oz of Mosaic Whole Cone Hops. After we cooled the wort down to pitching temperature with an immersion chiller we opened up the valve at the bottom of my boil kettle and it ran for a little bit but got stuck. I think in the future I will use a hop screen to help prevent future problems like these. Anyways we resorted to using a sanitized vinyl tube to siphon most of the wort off but the tube inevitably got clogged by hop leafs. At that point we still had 5 gallons of wort left so we lifted the boil kettle and poured everything into our glass carboy using a funnel.
Now for my question: Every bit of hop and trub from the boil made it into our fermenter. It looks marvelous bubbling away but I'm worried all this hop debris will make the hop character overwhelming. Can I just rack the beer over to a secondary fermenter after primary fermentation has completed? I plan to dry hop in 2 or 3 days anyways. Should I be worried at all about all this hop debris and trub in the fermenter???
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I recently got back into homebrewing and decided to do an 11gallon batch with a friend who I plan to split the batch with. Anyways, at flame out our recipe called for 4oz of Mosaic Whole Cone Hops. After we cooled the wort down to pitching temperature with an immersion chiller we opened up the valve at the bottom of my boil kettle and it ran for a little bit but got stuck. I think in the future I will use a hop screen to help prevent future problems like these. Anyways we resorted to using a sanitized vinyl tube to siphon most of the wort off but the tube inevitably got clogged by hop leafs. At that point we still had 5 gallons of wort left so we lifted the boil kettle and poured everything into our glass carboy using a funnel.
Now for my question: Every bit of hop and trub from the boil made it into our fermenter. It looks marvelous bubbling away but I'm worried all this hop debris will make the hop character overwhelming. Can I just rack the beer over to a secondary fermenter after primary fermentation has completed? I plan to dry hop in 2 or 3 days anyways. Should I be worried at all about all this hop debris and trub in the fermenter???