kombat
Well-Known Member
Hey guys,
I'm a beginner, and I started a kit this past weekend. I boiled 10L of water, then dumped in 1.3 kg of LME and threw in 1 oz. of Cascade pellet hops and boiled it all together for 30 minutes. I then turned off the heat, mixed in a "Pale Ale" extract kit, another 5L of water, and chilled the whole thing down to 74 deg. F with a 2-stage immersion chiller (worked great! Only took 15 minutes!)
I then poured the whole thing into a 23L carboy, topped it up with still more water, pitched the yeast, and sealed it up with a plug and blowoff tube (into a small bucket of StarSan solution).
My question is, I did not strain out those hop pellets when I transferred to the carboy - is that going to be a problem? Fermentation kicked off nicely and it's roiling away as I type this, but I can see the trub at the bottom of the carboy. Is this going to create off flavours? Should I rack to secondary as soon as fermentation slows, to get the beer away from that hop trub, or is it fine?
I'm a beginner, and I started a kit this past weekend. I boiled 10L of water, then dumped in 1.3 kg of LME and threw in 1 oz. of Cascade pellet hops and boiled it all together for 30 minutes. I then turned off the heat, mixed in a "Pale Ale" extract kit, another 5L of water, and chilled the whole thing down to 74 deg. F with a 2-stage immersion chiller (worked great! Only took 15 minutes!)
I then poured the whole thing into a 23L carboy, topped it up with still more water, pitched the yeast, and sealed it up with a plug and blowoff tube (into a small bucket of StarSan solution).
My question is, I did not strain out those hop pellets when I transferred to the carboy - is that going to be a problem? Fermentation kicked off nicely and it's roiling away as I type this, but I can see the trub at the bottom of the carboy. Is this going to create off flavours? Should I rack to secondary as soon as fermentation slows, to get the beer away from that hop trub, or is it fine?