What happened to my beer?!? (With pictures)

[Hoppy2bmerry]

The Irish moss I have states 1teaspoon for 5 gallons and the last 10 -15 minutes of boiling is usual as well. That is a ton of trub!

 

[psu12288]

Yes we did a 15 minute boil. This is all starting to make sense now. And those are good points about the hop debris..we’ve always just let it sit in a bath of ice, this is the first time we’ve ever stirred it. So stirring it obviously got all that debris into suspension so it wasn’t settled out when we poured.

Lessons learned!

 

[canehdianman]

Man, I want to see a picture of how clear that beer ends up.

You might be able to see into the future through it.

 

[Kealia]

Stirring itself isn't a problem. You did the right thing sanitizing your spoon. If you want it to be clear you just let it settle again before transferring to your carboy.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Well, the stirring is not actually bad, however it is good to let things settle prior to transfer. The chunks on the bottom and top appear to be the moss covered in yeast... At least in the image it is the color of yeast and gas could be lifting them to the surface. Have you tasted a small sample? When it is time to check your gravity, taste the sample. The smell you're noticing now may be a stage.

 

[psu12288]

Sounds good. Thanks everyone!

 

[Jwood]

I would crash cool the fermentor at the end, if you can, and then let us know how the one bottle you get from this tastes. Lol

You may have set the trub world record.

 

[kh54s10]

Even when I pour all the sludge from my boil pot into the fermenter I only get an inch or so of trub toward the end of fermentation. After a few days that packs down to 1/2 inch or less. When I bag my hops I get less than half that.

 

[psu12288]

Yea I really can’t understand how we got that much..it blows my mind

 

[FloppyKnockers]

Looks like you got yourself into some trooble.

...I'll see myself out.

 

[psu12288]

Haha I’m glad every has gotten a kick out of this at least

 

[Transamguy77]

Haha I’m glad every has gotten a kick out of this at least

Well I think now you hold the world record in most trub in a 5 gallon batch, but seriously it's all on the journey to brewing good beers, we've all made mistakes that we have all learned from and you showed all of us what happens when you add an oz of Irish moss to a batch of beer now we don't have to try it[emoji6].

Just put this beer aside and brew another one, and when you nail the next one you'll be glad for what you have learned.

 

[hunter306]

I was surprised, a good mystery obviously interests the ole' HBT brewing crowd. Funny how some threads get a dozen replies and others die quickly!

Hope it's a drinkable mistake.

 

[psu12288]

Ha, thanks guys!

 

[Sbe2]

I want to see how you clean that trub if it all compacts.

 

[Micky_cruz17]

So how's it looking :O???

 

[psu12288]

It’s at my friends house..I’ll be over in a couple days to try it again. We’ll see!

 

[BruceH]

Forgive me for asking but I just have to. Am I seeing the milled grain in the trub?

 

[psu12288]

Nope. I believe that would be excess Irish moss. This was a BIAB so definitely no grain in there!

 

[Kealia]

C'mon man, updates! Count me in as somebody who wants to see the latest pictures!

 

[cubalz]

Holy super trub, Batman!

 

[psu12288]

Well guys, it got worse. The smell got worse and the trub never settled and it definitely grew bacteria. We had to dump it [emoji22]

 

[Kealia]

I'm sorry for your loss.

A round of taps please....

 

[Sbe2]

Ahh what a shame.