Thoughts on cold crashing

Just wanted to get everyone's thoughts on cold crashing here.

#1
Cold crashing after primary then move to secondary?

#2
Cold crashing after secondary?

#3
Cold crashing after both primary and secondary?

These were the 3 conditions Iv'e been contemplating... I've only used the cold crash method 1 time and it was after a beer I fermented completely in the primary, dry hopped for a week and then cold crashed.

Thoughts?

Cheers!
Bobby

#4 cold crash in primary and rack to a keg

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brew_ny said:

#4 cold crash in primary and rack to a keg

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That's exactly what I did for that last batch.

#2 if dry hopping, wood aging, or fruit additions. Otherwise it's #4.

Cold crashing precipitates the cold haze proteins, so you only have to do it once. Whether you do it in your primary fermenter, or a bright tank (trying to move away from the term 'secondary fermenter') is totally up to you, but in either container, do it about 1 week before you are ready to bottle.

JimRausch said:

Cold crashing precipitates the cold haze proteins, so you only have to do it once. Whether you do it in your primary fermenter, or a bright tank (trying to move away from the term 'secondary fermenter') is totally up to you, but in either container, do it about 1 week before you are ready to bottle.

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Thats what I thought thanks for all of the input!

Cheers!
Bobby