Does this look normal?

[Barticus]

When I did my first brew a couple of weeks ago, a coopers lager, within hours of setting it away there was a big build up of "stuff" on the bottom of the FV. I put that down to me not mixing it very well even though I thought I had.

Today I have started a St Peters Ruby Red and within two hours there is again a big build up on the bottom. Now I mixed this vigorously with 3.5 litres of boiling water as instructed and again when all the cold was in.

I appreciate if your FV is not transparent then you might not see this but can anyone tell me if this is normal? Has the heavy stuff just sunk to the bottom.

On the coopers one this stuff stayed there until bottling.

 

[RobWalker]

yeah, it's trub - stuff from the malt, spent yeast etc. It settles out and you syphon off avoiding it.

 

[critty]

Looks yummy lol. I have just bottled my beer today and founf a nice layer of the stuff at the bottom on the FV. But I syphoned the beer away and left it at the bottom thought I have read that you can set another batch off on top of it.

 

[carl_saint]

Looks normal to me! You got a healthy ferment going on there son!

 

[Barticus]

Thanks for the replies fellas. This was only two hours after initial mixing and BEFORE fermentation had started so my thoughts were it must be sugar dropping to the bottom.

I have since heard from someone else with a coopers clear FV and they say this happens all the time.