Do you strain break material from DME boiled for priming?

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When you prime with DME, there is a bit of break material formed when you boil the DME. How to brew mentions this, but doesn't say what to do about it or if you should care. Do you strain this material out?

I recently primed with DME for the first time and did get a wee bit of break material, but I'm not sure a seive would have even caught it. Is cheese cloth the answer? Or do you just dump it into your bottling bucket?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 12 '17 at 07:32

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No

I just dump.

[Edit, thanks to TinCoyote]

When asking these sort of questions I always think about the proportions (or dilution rate). Pitching a few tens of ml into 19,000 ml won't even register on your tongue.

edited Apr 12 '17 at 07:32

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answered Mar 10 '10 at 15:19

Dean Brundage

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Dean's succinct answer is entirely correct. There will be lees in the bottle from natural carbonation anyway. – TinCoyote Mar 10 '10 at 15:44
Doesn't a cup or so of DME dissolved in two cups of water make for about 700ml, not a few tens? The values are still very disparate, but not quite so much. – JackSmith Mar 10 '10 at 17:59
I thought you were asking about the break material. – Dean Brundage Mar 10 '10 at 19:40
Oh, I thought you were talking about the entire priming solution. I get it now. – JackSmith Mar 11 '10 at 13:32

Do you strain break material from DME boiled for priming?

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No