cloudy beer

[brysie]

morning all

lovely down here this morning,
i did a wherry a couple of weeks ago {4th one] no problems so far.
i left it in the fv a couple of days longer than usual, sg a constant 1014, carefully siphoned into secondary and primed with 100g of golden
syrup nuked in half a pint of the brew, cooled and carefully added half an hour before bottling.

now....the last three have started to clear in the bottle within a few days of bottling [kept in the warm]
and this ones been inside for 6 days now but still looks like soup. not even half an inch cleared in the neck of the bottle.

anyone got any ideas?

[joel_m]

I'll be interested to see what peoples opinions are as my wherry in the bottle is fairly clear but still has some haze to it after 3 weeks and my keg wherry is quite a bit cloudier although alot clearer than it was when I first kegged it (I can just about see my fingers the other side of a pint glass).
interestingly the Keg and Bottled beer do taste slightly different. The Bottles Wherry is quite a bit dryer with a more hoppy taste and the keg stuff still has a little bit of sweetness to it (i guess from the priming sugars) both are still a good drop of beer though.

[WishboneBrewery]

my Wherry Cleared eventually but it took a good 4 weeks.

[brysie]

well.......

i put one in the fridge a couple of days ago and just checked again this morning.
no change at all. still cloudy as ever.
this is a bit of a puzzler because the ones ive done before started to clear straight away. any thoughts?

[Hogshead]

I'm on my 6th Wherry, all of which have cleared within a week apart from the current brew and its been 3 weeks. Iv'e even added finings for the first time ever resulting in a slight improvement. Tstes as good as ever, but is there something going on?

[brysie]

well just an update,

happy easter by the way.
had them down the cellar now and they are starting to clear but very slowly. about 5mm in the neck of the bottle.
very strange, i wondered if it might have something to do with using golden syrup to prime.

[mat69]

everytime someone says they have a cellar i always wonder what else is down there..

[timothio]

Wish I had a proper cellar... But I got the next best thing (almost)!

I live in the basement flat of a house that is part of an old Victorian terrace. You go down some steps from the main road, and there's my door. Now directly opposite my front door (kind of under the entrance pathway to the main house) is a "strange door" that I've always wondered about, but has been firmly padlocked since I've lived there. On the advice of my sister (she knows about these things, god knows how) I wrenched the lock off the door and discovered a nice little coal cellar. Aparently back in yesteryear, coal would be shovelled in to the cellar from the road level (theres a little manhole above) so the servents who lived in the basement could access it and stoke the boiler, or whatever they actually did with the stuff.

Perfect, methinks, for a beer cellar?? Got my first brew conditioning in the warm after bottling on Saturday, then its into the coal cellar. Which reminds me, must buy a new lock for it before the landlord discovers my crime...

[Tramorak]

everytime someone says they have a cellar i always wonder what else is down there..

We live on a Victorian Terrace (Typical 2 Up 2 Down, with the front door directly to living room) which has a cellar. It is full of crap that we have no other space for

However, we also have a seperate room down there, formerly used for recieving coal from street level. My Good Lady cleaned this out and painted it up and the "Coal Hole Brewery" was born. While we both realise that this isn't exactly accurate, we are happy enough with the white lie.

Dave.

[brysie]

well in our case, cellar is slightly inaccurate.
more like the void under the kitchen that i cleared out and put some shelves up. i put a worktop and sink in but havnt got round to plumbing it in yet.

`the lazy sod under the kitchen` brewery doesnt have the same ring to it does it.