Chill Haze

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Chill Haze

Post by Damfoose » Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:41 pm

Brought my 9 litre cornie into the house last night and forgot to take it back out to the garage this morning so the beer that is in it is now at room temp around the 19C mark.
Thing is last night i was drinking very cloudy beer ( or so I thaught ) decided to have a room temp brew tonight and its crystal clear :shock: so im putting the cloudyness down to chill haze the beer was that cloudy you would honestly thaught that their was a kilo of yeast in suspension. The beer is out in the garage which as we all know its darn cold outside hovering around the -2 to +4 area I have no where else to put my brews unless I want them warm which is not really what I would like as the beer looses a good deal of taste.

Is their any way I can get rid of the haze with out filtering or warming up to room temp.

mysterio

Re: Chill Haze

Post by mysterio » Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:28 pm

Auxilliary finings (silica) will help with protein haze which is causing your chill haze. Polyclar (PVPP) drags out tannins which is the other half of the problem. Both together is perfect, but one or the other works fine.

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Re: Chill Haze

Post by Aleman » Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:00 pm

Or you can add Papain which chews up the proteins which is the preferred commercial solution to chill haze (IIRC it is sold in the supermarkets as Meat Tenderiser)

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Re: Chill Haze

Post by Aleman » Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:31 pm

It can be added to the FV or the bottling bucket/ keg . . . . I need to check the info for it that I have as I suspect that it is one of those that continues working even following pasteurisation . . . not sure as to its effects on body etc . . . it was just something I saw in an article I got from Murphy's regarding 'additional' enzymes in the brewing process. . . . I may need to talk to Christine Flemming again

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Re: Chill Haze

Post by Gurgeh » Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:54 pm

interesting idea Aleman... watching this thread closely!

Damfoose

Re: Chill Haze

Post by Damfoose » Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:01 pm

Intresting info on Papain their Aleman,

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