Hey all,
I have just completed my fourth full extract kit and about to embark on my first all grain, but I have some questions if anybody could help with.
Flame out hops? I've read on another thread and the general consensus is to add when the wort is at 80c. I've currently been chucking them in at flame out and cooling straight away. Is this ok?
Whirlfloc and whirlpooling? I boil my wort in a 30L cooking pot with no false bottom or tap. I've seen online people whirlpooling the wort to collect all the proteins and debris. I can't seem to get this to happen. I can see all the proteins starting to coagulate together when I'm cooling but it doesn't drop to the bottom quick enough, so when I am syphoning lots of it gets into the fv. It almost seems like I should leave it alone for an hour before cooling so it can drop out. Any suggestions or tips on this? Also if the proteins do get into the fv, surely it would all just drop out in the fv, would this effect the beer..?
Hop spider. I have made a hop spider that suspends a Muslin bag into the boiler. When I removed it I gave it a good squeeze to get out as much wort as I could. Is that a bad idea?
I'm sure I will have a load more questions after my first attempt, but some help with these ones would by greatly appreciated
Jake
I have just completed my fourth full extract kit and about to embark on my first all grain, but I have some questions if anybody could help with.
Flame out hops? I've read on another thread and the general consensus is to add when the wort is at 80c. I've currently been chucking them in at flame out and cooling straight away. Is this ok?
Whirlfloc and whirlpooling? I boil my wort in a 30L cooking pot with no false bottom or tap. I've seen online people whirlpooling the wort to collect all the proteins and debris. I can't seem to get this to happen. I can see all the proteins starting to coagulate together when I'm cooling but it doesn't drop to the bottom quick enough, so when I am syphoning lots of it gets into the fv. It almost seems like I should leave it alone for an hour before cooling so it can drop out. Any suggestions or tips on this? Also if the proteins do get into the fv, surely it would all just drop out in the fv, would this effect the beer..?
Hop spider. I have made a hop spider that suspends a Muslin bag into the boiler. When I removed it I gave it a good squeeze to get out as much wort as I could. Is that a bad idea?
I'm sure I will have a load more questions after my first attempt, but some help with these ones would by greatly appreciated
Jake