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bazooka
08-04-2003, 09:41 AM
....after boiling my wort for a couple of minutes, black flakes started appearing on the surface. I was stirring the wort, and it had not yet reached a full boil when I noticed the burned flakes. Is this something that I should be concerned about? (I used a strainer when pouring the wort into the fermenter, so I got all of it out anyway)
sallad
08-04-2003, 09:59 AM
more details needed. it could possibly scorched extracts if you dumped extracts without taking it off the heat, or maybe something else that was stuck to the pot. might even be part of the pot.. whats the pot made of? maybe some grain husks from roasted barley or black patent malt, etc...
Jeff
08-05-2003, 11:05 AM
I had something very similar happen on my first batch of homebrew, which is currently in it's secondary. I think I know what I did wrong now. I poured the extract syrup in while it was still on the burner. I ended up with some large black flakes in the wort, will this affect the taste of the beer?

I strained the wort before pouring it into the primary and had a lot of other stuff end up in the strainer (Besides the black flakes). I don't know how to describe it exactly, it was kind of a brown mush. Did I need this (whaterver it was) in the fermenter?
bazooka
08-05-2003, 05:03 PM
"more details needed. it could possibly scorched extracts if you dumped extracts without taking it off the heat, or maybe something else that was stuck to the pot. might even be part of the pot.. whats the pot made of?"

...I am using a stainless steel stock pot, and it was very clean with no burn marks on it. However, I did pour in the extract while the pot was on the burner. I've done three other brews using the same pot and method, and this is the first time I got large, black flakes....the beer is fermenting away right now in my basement. I got an initial gravity reading of 1.035, using my hydrometer for the first time. I hope I am reading the damn thing right!!!!!
paul84043
08-06-2003, 07:43 AM
1) take pot off burner when adding extract.

2) Lager flakes, though tempting are not a new breakfast cereal, it's the "hot break", the protiens that solifdify as the wort heats up. No biggie!! Mine does it every time.
You actually get the very same thig as you cool your wort, assuming that you do it quickly enough.

It's a good thing...