Filtered wort from kettle to fermentor accident

[agillies]

Hey all,

Over the weekend I was brewing an APA with a mate, and just have a question.

We noticed there was lots of little bits of grain in the kettle when we where transferring from the mashtun. We kept recirculating until it was clear then back to kettle, only to have to start recirculating again when bits of grain would get through.

Not sure if it is a big deal to have grain in the kettle, but we thought as it would go to the fermenter probably best to filter it. So grabbed some voile, cleaned and sterilized it thoroughly.

Then pumped the wort from the kettle into the fermenter through the ‘filter’. We noticed there wasn’t as much grain as we thought but kept going. We then noticed that there was a lot of green hop sediment in the filter. We decided to tie up the filter and use it like a tea bag.

Unfortunately after cleaning hand etc, there was a slip and the hoppy goodness landed on the floor.

I should add that it was a double and a half batch, and there was about 160g of flameout hops added.

Have those hops gone to waste? Should I dry hop the sh*t out of it? Or as they are late hop additions will they have done what they are meant to do?

Cheers

Adam

 

[manticle]

How long after flameout did you pump the wort to the fermenter?

Best way to tell really is to taste it and see if it's as hoppy as you like (when FG hits). Easy enough to dry hop or add a small hop/malt tea if it needs more.

 

[agillies]

probably about 5 minutes then started pumping through a chiller to the fermenter, that took about 10minutes or so after a few issues.

Might have to try that then. Just have to siphon it out of fermenter as its still got the plug in, we forgot to put the tap back on the fermenter.

Does dry hopping roughly do the same as flameout additions?

 

[toncils]

Nope. Dry hopping tends to give you little flavour and heaps of aroma.
Correct me if I'm wrong.


Sorry you didn't get an answer sooner.

 

[manticle]

Dry hopping gives plenty of flavour. Dry hop a cup of water for 3 days and tell me the water smells like hops but tastes like water and I'll buy you a nice letterbox.