Brewed my third all-grain batch last night and after running the wort into the BetterBottle fermenter, I was shocked by the amount of cold break. After it all settled it was 4 inches of the stuff.
My other two batches had nowhere near the amount of goo of this batch. Then I remembered... Previously after cooling with an immersion chiller, I waited 20 minutes or so to let stuff settle before running it into the fermenter. But this time I stirred the chiller one last time and then ran it into the the fermenter. Duh.
Not wanting to handle the cooled stuff more than I needed, I simply let it settle out and pitched the yeast. The more I thought about it, the more it bugged me. So this afternoon, while fermentation seemed to be rolling pretty good, I racked it into another freshly sanitized carboy, leaving the crud behind. My thought was that If I racked it while a decent fermentation was in progress I'd avoid oxidation, as the yeast would be happy to use any oxygen I introduced.
So my question is (finally)... Should I have racked it off or did it really not matter much? And If I should have racked it, did I pick the right time to do so?
My other two batches had nowhere near the amount of goo of this batch. Then I remembered... Previously after cooling with an immersion chiller, I waited 20 minutes or so to let stuff settle before running it into the fermenter. But this time I stirred the chiller one last time and then ran it into the the fermenter. Duh.
Not wanting to handle the cooled stuff more than I needed, I simply let it settle out and pitched the yeast. The more I thought about it, the more it bugged me. So this afternoon, while fermentation seemed to be rolling pretty good, I racked it into another freshly sanitized carboy, leaving the crud behind. My thought was that If I racked it while a decent fermentation was in progress I'd avoid oxidation, as the yeast would be happy to use any oxygen I introduced.
So my question is (finally)... Should I have racked it off or did it really not matter much? And If I should have racked it, did I pick the right time to do so?