Cold break and fermentation

[Garth]

practically the same here straight from the boiler, through the cfc and into the fermenter, then pitch, skim if the muck is really bad on top of the yeast head.

the only bit that gets filtered out is stuff the hops hold back,

I left it for four hours once to settle and then racked off the cold break stuff at the bottom of the fv, fermentation was shit, very little head etc. stopped well short of the expected FG. Tried this a second time with another brew same problems occured.

Left for long enough the majority of my beers drop bright, some very polished, some not so.

[guildofevil]

Immersion chiller in the boiler, then filter through the hops.

I don't really have a choice here as, with the above chilling method, the hot and cold break material are all mixed up and I don't think you want too much of the hot break material in the fermentor.

[mixbrewery]

Hops filter bed in copper, nylon pre-filter before plate chiller to trap any hot break.
Ferment on the cold stuff as no further filter between chiller and FV.