AxelF
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Hi I've just tried my first all grain IPA.
However I tied the hop sock too tight during the boil ... which I found out later was bad. So i read a brewer who said it's OK to just Chuck the Hops in the boil. So I opened the hop sock and poorer the hop pellets into the wort.
Then I made my second mistake ... I didn't have a wort cooler so I used some sanitised cooler blocks to bring the temperature down and I could see protein coagulate in the wort.
I left it 3 weeks before Dry hopping on the hope the protein would settle out.
I opened the fermenter and this is what greeted me.
Is this a ruined beer or is it just the pellet hops detritus floating to the surface ?
However I tied the hop sock too tight during the boil ... which I found out later was bad. So i read a brewer who said it's OK to just Chuck the Hops in the boil. So I opened the hop sock and poorer the hop pellets into the wort.
Then I made my second mistake ... I didn't have a wort cooler so I used some sanitised cooler blocks to bring the temperature down and I could see protein coagulate in the wort.
I left it 3 weeks before Dry hopping on the hope the protein would settle out.
I opened the fermenter and this is what greeted me.
Is this a ruined beer or is it just the pellet hops detritus floating to the surface ?