Floating Stuff

[Oblomov]

I sometimes end up with floating stuff/foam in my boil, see attached picture. The beer usually turns out fine but with a lot of sediment. What is it, how do I fix it?

Maybe of note: the vorlauf was very cloudy and it didn't really clear up.

 

[dickTed]

Proteins congeal to make "hot break". You can't strain it, but you can whirlpool & siphon or just let it settle in the fermenter.

Hot break is what we get by boiling for any reasonable length of time - 20 mins or more. Using Irish moss helps to coagulate it and make it settle.

If you use extract to brew and you just tip it in and dissolve like a kit, the beer will be cloudy like pea soup. Besides, you don't know where it's been. I've bought liq extract with a dead moth in it.

 

[Oblomov]

Ok, thanks. Nothing to worry about then. I scooped up about half a liter and discarded it in the kitchen sink.

(This was AG, did about a 2 hour boil)