Wort And Trub Before you can ferment your brew, you have to separate the brewed wort from the trub. For those who don’t speak beer, here’s a quick glossary: Wort: Wort is “the sweet, amber liquid extracted from malted barley that the yeast will later ferment into beer.” According to Howtobrew.com, whirlpooling helps prepare the wort for fermentation by “gathering most of the break and hops into the center of the pot to better enable the siphon to draw off clear wort from the side.” Trub: Beerandbrewing.com identifies trub as “a collective term covering sediments formed in the brewing process […]