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Extract/Partial Mash Brewing / Re: Extract brew chill haze issues

« on: March 28, 2010, 07:38:46 PM »

I'll give that a try.  Thanks for the suggestion.  Do these clarifying agents clear out the proteins responsible for causing chill haze or do they mainly clear out cloudiness that is present at all temperatures in the beer?

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Extract/Partial Mash Brewing / Re: Extract brew chill haze issues

« on: March 28, 2010, 12:49:12 AM »

Thanks for the response tygo. I am not using Irish moss in the boil, or any other clarifying agents for that matter. I've dry-hopped both of these beers, so I've been fermenting one week in primary and dry-hopping one week in secondary. For future non-dry-hopped beers I will bypass the secondary and extend primary fermentation times as needed to achieve full and stable attenuation. As for cooling, I use a copper immersion chiller, which takes 15-20 min. to chill from near boiling to 67F.

Thanks again for any help. 

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Extract/Partial Mash Brewing / Extract brew chill haze issues

« on: March 27, 2010, 11:01:46 PM »

I'm a partial volume stovetop extract brewer with just three batches under my belt (on my own equipment anyway). I've noticed significant chill haze in the beers I've produced so far. The beers are a normal unfiltered cloudiness during bottling, but chilling these beers (a hoppy red ale and an IPA) results in significantly increased cloudiness, even though the yeast bed is left behind in the bottle. Is chill haze a common problem not to be worried about or is there some simple solution I'm not aware of?

Thanks everyone.