Hazy brew

[Pegasus]

Hi,
I've just started brewing and bottled the 1st brew today. However, I noticed a significant haze in the brew and not sure if this is normal at this point or if I've done or omitted something I shouldn't have. Briefly, this was the recipe/process:

Heated 8 litres water (Ashbecks bottled) to 50-60C then added Pale LME : 1000g, turn off heat and stir in;
raised temp to 60-70C and added grains in bag (Crystal: 150g; Black: 10g) for 30 mins then removed;
raised temp to rolling boil and added hops (Challenger, Golding, Fuggles) - EBU 31;
kept rolling boil for 90 mins then added a few more Golding and Protofloc - maintained boil for another 15 mins.
Turned off heat allowed to cool to ~80C (about 60mins later) then transferred, through a sieve, into fermenting vessel (OG 1.036).

The 'hot break' had settled and was discarded although the liquid was still very turbid.

Allowed the brew to cool overnight (to 23C) before pitching the yeast starter: 4g Nottingham (Muntons dried) with 50g DME in 450ml tap water (Thames Water) started 2 days earlier. Pitched on 19 Dec, vigorous bubbling a day later and continued until 28th, bottled 2 Jan. Temperature throughout was fairly steady at 19-21C. The SG is now 1.006 (so 4% ABV - just nice)

The yeast sediment was very compact - almost jelly like.

So I now have a very hazy brew. I've put bulk into a gallon demijohn and remainder into capped primed bottles, and put somewhere dark for the rest of the month.

Is the haze normal at this stage? Did I do something wrong or have I missed something out? If the haze remains will it affect taste or my insides ? Anything else I could do?

Cheers

Paul

[Charles1968]

It's quite normal. Once the beer is bottled it will start to clear. Unbottled beer takes longer to clear as tiny CO2 bubbles are still rising in it. The bubbles lift sediment particles causing haze and, when fermentation is vigorous, krausen. When bubbles stop rising (due either to end of fermentation or pressure), large sediment particles drop first, then smaller haze particles fall more slowly. The beer will be completely clear in time. You might still have some chill haze though - a kind of haze that appears only when beer is very cold.

[Pegasus]

Thanks for that Charles - that's a relief. Noticed clarity is already slowly improving.

[Harmergeddon]

You might still have some chill haze though - a kind of haze that appears only when beer is very cold.

Is your dark place where your storing the beer cold? If not then it's probably just sediment that will settle out as already mentioned.

[Pegasus]

[quote="Harmergeddon"][quote="Charles1968"] You might still have some chill haze though - a kind of haze that appears only when beer is very cold.[/quote]

Is your dark place where your storing the beer cold? If not then it's probably just sediment that will settle out as already mentioned.[/quote]

It's cool but not cold (~15C)

[Fil]

if hazy sup from an opaque tankard

[Harmergeddon]

It's cool but not cold (~15C)

Unlikely to be chill haze then.

[Pegasus]

Checked it today, the brew in the 1 clear bottle now shows no haze.
A 2nd batch made to same spec but with London tap water treated with metabisulphite, CRS and DLS was bottled yesterday - perfectly clear.
Now anticipating the tasting comparison in about 4 weeks time.
Thanks for the replies