Highest temperatures for emptying boiler

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cwrw

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I've had two last beers that have been plagued by hot break material - white clouds at the bottom of my bottles. I have been emptying my boiler earlier of late as I wanted to get a better start temperature for the yeasties. I had thought the unwanted material had come from inefficient protofloc (which is over a year old), however, I now suspect it is because of the above practice.
Is there a maximum temperature that the wort can be poured out without having break material, if so what is it?
Any takers?
 
the usual way is to crash chill with a wort chiller. I cool the wort to about 20 deg c at that temp all the creak material settles at the bottom of the boiler which makes it easier to filter out when you transfer to the fermenter
 
Some of iit will settle out in the fv and provide proteion for the growing yeast but that should then drop out before you bottle.
 
graysalchemy said:
Some of iit will settle out in the fv and provide proteion for the growing yeast but that should then drop out before you bottle.

The thing is it did'nt - it has been present in every single bottle ...what a bumer!
 
how long did you leave it after brewing before bottling? did you put it somewhere cool or use any fining?
 
I'd left it for a total of 8 days, which is including transfer from primary to secondary and up to time of bottling. No finnings were used during these stages (with only the use of protofloc at the last 15 minutes of boil). Usually I've had no difficulty as such :wha:
Storing temperatures have been between 7-11c.
 
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