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Re: Cold crash or not?
« Reply #15 on: July 24, 2013, 06:53:45 am »
Bear in mind a fair amount of sediment will drop in the bottling bucket as well. I usually leave mine to rest for up to an hour and then bottle. I quit sweating about things like turbidity a very long time ago.
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Re: Cold crash or not?
« Reply #16 on: December 25, 2015, 05:02:33 pm »
Will the be any benefit to doing this or am I just wasting time with the time in the fridge? 

The benefit will be less transferred sediment/trub, so long as you don't foul it up by majorly disturbing the trub layer on the bottom of the fermenter when racking.  So you in theory will have clear-er beer.  However, would I personally do this for an oatmeal stout, which I am assuming is nearly opaque black?  No i wouldn't waste time on that, but i nice IPA or dortmunder export, yeah, I would go the extra step.

Don't know how you will get less sediment/trub  transferred by putting it in the fridge after you transfer it. Cold crashing before you transfer would be they way to go. In this case it would be a waste of your time.
Important to remember that even though primary fermentation is completed, cold crashing the beer in the original primary will result in sometimes dialectal or butter flavors on the way down.  I always believe in removing the primary trub and yeast then going into a secondary fermentation at which time you can to a rest, then crash the temperature.
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Re: Cold crash or not?
« Reply #17 on: December 25, 2015, 05:53:00 pm »

Important to remember that even though primary fermentation is completed, cold crashing the beer in the original primary will result in sometimes dialectal or butter flavors on the way down.  I always believe in removing the primary trub and yeast then going into a secondary fermentation at which time you can to a rest, then crash the temperature.

Aside from the fact that this is a dead 2 year old thread, I also don't know where you got this fact.  I've never experienced it.

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Re: Cold crash or not?
« Reply #18 on: December 26, 2015, 10:39:30 am »

Important to remember that even though primary fermentation is completed, cold crashing the beer in the original primary will result in sometimes dialectal or butter flavors on the way down.  I always believe in removing the primary trub and yeast then going into a secondary fermentation at which time you can to a rest, then crash the temperature.

Aside from the fact that this is a dead 2 year old thread, I also don't know where you got this fact.  I've never experienced it.

Same here.  Hundreds of batches of personal experience and I've never seen this happen.
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