Malt quality in relation to bright beer

[andysmok]

I have always struggled to get a nice bright beer without using gelatin, and was very supprised when my last beer was clear as a bell after about 10 days in the FV. It was my first batch out of a new sack of pale malt. I am pretty new to AG and have only used 1 sack before and had none drop bright like that. Could this effect clearing?
I also used a liquid yeast for the first time which was wlp005 could this be a reason for my good fortune? everythig else was the same as normal.

[mysterio]

What yeast do you normally use ?

005 is known as a fairly flocculant yeast so it could well have been the reason.

Most British pale ale malts don't throw any haze (in beer at cellar temps) if mashed properly, although there are always exceptions. People have posted about dodgy malt before. Copper finings also help greatly.

[andysmok]

Ive used all the normal dried yeasts ie. so4, nottingham, windsor before and i always use profolc or simalar in the copper.
I asume these yeasts sould act in a simlar way to 005 which makes me think i may of been using a bad sack of malt or mabe an old sack. I am thinking of brewing on wednesday and i will be very intrested to see the final result of this beer.

[Scooby]

I have always used Warminster malt and produced crystal clear beer, I'm coming to the end of a bag of Muntons and every brew from it whilst being acceptable has shown a slight haze, nothing else has changed in my brewing procedure so I can only put it down the the malt. I'll know soon when I start a Warminster bag.

[andysmok]

Interesting, You'll have to post your findings. Just another thought, when i bought my first sack of malt the woman in the shop said it was her last bag (but then insisted that they have a fast turnover so it was fresh!). when i got the bag home it had seamed that the inner plastic bag was already opened so i'm thinking may be i got my bag topped up with some other injuctions

[booldawg]

I have always used Warminster malt and produced crystal clear beer, I'm coming to the end of a bag of Muntons and every brew from it whilst being acceptable has shown a slight haze, nothing else has changed in my brewing procedure so I can only put it down the the malt. I'll know soon when I start a Warminster bag.

I've just pitched my first beer brewed with pale malt from a 25kg sack. The sack advertises its Pearl from Muntons so will be interested in how it performs. As I'm brewing a pale ale then the results will be apparent.

Before this I brewed from 3kg bags from LHBS and never had a problem.