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I brewed an APA 4 weeks ago. Took a while to finish fermenting (3 weeks), used US05. Now in fridge for 5 days in hopes of dropping the yeast before kegging. The beer is still fairly murkey. Should I give it more time before kegging? Should I keg and add a fining agent?

Thanks,

Neil

It might be chill haze, and that could take a long time. Personally, I don't worry about that stuff and keg beers fairly quickly, but you could fine it for sure.

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I would say chill haze as well. Funny some beers clear quickly and some don't. The last 2 I brewed decided on no secondary and those were the clearest beers to date. Can't quite figure it out. Enjoy all the same

I use gelatin in the keg to pull down chill haze. Works great, though the first two pints are murky.

adams81 wrote:I use gelatin in the keg to pull down chill haze. Works great, though the first two pints are murky.

I've done this on a few batches as well. Very easy to do. 1/4 cup of water heated to 150 degrees. stir in 1 tsp gelatin, then pour in your keg. purge air, and give it a slight rock. 2 days later crystal clear beer.

Awesome! Thanks guys!

Keith wrote:

adams81 wrote:I use gelatin in the keg to pull down chill haze. Works great, though the first two pints are murky.

I've done this on a few batches as well. Very easy to do. 1/4 cup of water heated to 150 degrees. stir in 1 tsp gelatin, then pour in your keg. purge air, and give it a slight rock. 2 days later crystal clear beer.

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I don't think gelatin will drop chill haze, I'm pretty well sure you would need something like Polyclar to do that.
However I use gelatin all the time to clear yeasty beers especially those made with US05, which I find don't like to clear very fast.

With my water profile (before I started "adjusting it") my beer clears "crystal clear" with US-O5 after a week primary ferment, a week of keg conditioning at room temp and about 5 days in the keezer. But I do use whirfloc at the end of the boil. That's without dry hops which will cause a haze.

Tony L wrote:I don't think gelatin will drop chill haze, I'm pretty well sure you would need something like Polyclar to do that.
However I use gelatin all the time to clear yeasty beers especially those made with US05, which I find don't like to clear very fast.

It cleared all my hazed beer. Just need to chill them to around 4 degrees.

I've used gelatin many times and there's been nothing it won't drop out of the beer, including chill haze

Keith wrote: It cleared all my hazed beer. Just need to chill them to around 4 degrees.

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I have used it in a room temp carboy with no effect on chill haze but once I started chilling in the keg prior to treatment all of my beers are crystal clear.

Drink it in a coffee mug. Problem solved!

Keggermeister wrote:Drink it in a coffee mug. Problem solved!

Crystal clear beer is overrated!

Kegged last night. Added some gelatin to the keg, so will see what happens. I had enough beer left over to bottle condition a 6 pack...they don't look half bad.

Gelatin has worked very well for me in the past. I only do it for beers that are for the coors light crowd as they think there is something wrong with a little hazy beer.

gm- wrote:Gelatin has worked very well for me in the past. I only do it for beers that are for the coors light crowd as they think there is something wrong with a little hazy beer.

Tell them to pick up a 12 pack of coors light on their way over.... then when they are leaving, remind them to take their coors light with them lol.

The beer cleared beautifully with a little gelatin in the keg. Tastes and smells great too.