Half way through a two-day brew

[JamesH]

Hi,

I had a very smooth mash and sparge last night and I'm going to be boiling and chilling tonight.

I cooled the wort last night with my chiller and, this morning, when I transferred the wort from to boiler I noticed a bit of fine sediment at the bottom of the FV I was storing the wort in. Am I right in thinking I should chuck this sediment out (as it should have been removed when recirculating the initial runnings)? I am expecting there to be some more sediment there when I get back.

Just thought I should check before getting rid of it.

Cheers,

James.

[dopejack]

Why did you cool it last night? No point, you're going to boil it today! But yes, bin any sediment. It probably wont hurt, but the clearer your wort pre-boil, the better.

[Hoodlum]

interestingly, I was advised to bring the wort up to 80 deg C in order for a particular process to take place (enzymic activity or something?) once I had sparged

Others chipped into the same thread, and suggested that they never did the 80 Deg C thing post sparge, and this never made a difference to the end product.

[CrownCap]

Either heating or cooling would likely do the trick - either denature the enzymes by heating, or take them below their operating temperature by cooling. Either way you are looking to stop conversion or you may be looking at a very fermentable but rather thin and bodiless wort.

[JamesH]

I cooled it down last night to avoid it getting infected while cooling slowly. For my previous brew I heated the wort as was suggested but it added quite a bit of extra time and the wort looked pretty murky the following day. So I decided to cool it this time.

It's in the fermenter now and I hit the target OG and brewlength so hopefully it will be fine.

My best brew to date. Hopefully the results will match it and I'll be cracking open a keg of Batemans XXXB come Easter.