excessive sediment in fermenter

What went wrong? Was this supposed to happen? Should I throw it out? What do I do now?

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crxyem
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excessive sediment in fermenter

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Here is the brew profile

started with ~6gals of water

Grain/Extract/Sugar

Amount Name Potential SG SRM
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0.50 lbs. Pale Chocolate Malt GR601 1.0295 45
0.50 lbs. CaraRed GR452 1.0350 20
5.00 lbs. Alexander LME - ME10 1.0370 14
0.21 lbs. Rice Extract DME50 1.0400 0
1.00 lbs. DME 10 - Light 1.0460 8

Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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1.00 oz. Chinook Pellet 12.00 39.0 60 min.
0.50 oz. Galena Pellet 12.00 10.7 30 min.
2.00 oz. Amarillo Gold Pellet 10.00 0.0 10 min.
1.00 oz. Goldings - E.K. Pellet 4.75 0.0 10 min.

Extras

Amount Name Type Time
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1.00 Unit(s)Whirlfloc Fining 15 Min.(boil)


Yeast
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Danstar Nottingham


Notes
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Grains in @ 6:17pm, Temp = 158 F, grains out @ 7:45pm Temp = 168 F
bring to boil , flameout - malts added at 7:10pm -boiling at 7:20pm
finished boil at 8:20pm , cooling to 75F
pitched yeast at 77F


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Problem, everything seemed to go as normal. I managed to drop the bittering hops bag into the wort at the 30min mark not really a problem just a little extra trub in the wort. so everything seemed to be fine until we were transferring the wort to the carboy fermenter. It looked like there was an excessive amount of proteins suspended in the wort. We aerated and then pitched the yeast. Sediment seemed to settle to the bottom but it's much more then I've ever seen before. Also this barely made 4.75gals with a 6gal starting volume.

It's the first time I've used dried malt extract vs. liquid and my fiend and I aren't quite sure if the excessive sediment is going to be a problem ??

Any and all comments are welcome
thanks in advance
Dennis
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Sedimentation

Post by brewmeisterintng »

It is usually not a problem as you should be transferring it to a secondary after a week or so anyway. There are a multitude reasons why you ended up with a lot in the fermentor including sucking up too much from the brew pot to the boil not being strong enough. The bottom line is that you made the beer and it should turn out fine. It should clear in the secondary. The bottom line is not to get rapped to tight about what it looks like until it
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Post by crxyem »

Thanks for settling my mind.

I'm going to have to say the root cause is due to too much trub from the brew pot into the primary. I'm quite certain that the wort got up to a very nice vigorous rolling boil.
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