Okay not really a miracle. But at the time it was pretty cool. Here's the deal:
My latest batch, my fourth attempt at the "perfect" witbier, turned out funny.
You could call it "Snow Wit" witbier because it lived during fermentation through over 24 hours of no heat from power loss as a result of a snow storm (Nemo). The house was at 39F at one point before the power was restored.
For whatever reason, the wort and beer was always very cloudy for a month. Finally, I just bottled it when I saw it would never stop being cloudy. I skipped cold crashing thinking it negatively.
Weeks went by as the beer conditioned in the bottle. One day I decided to cool the dregs bottle. Meaning the last bottle filled of the batch. It was half full of beer and meant for testing.
I pushed into the freezer to cool quickly. The trouble was, I was distracted and didn't come back to the bottle until the next day and that beer pop was frozen solid.... but sealed. I placed it in the fridge to thaw.
Two days later I pop the top expecting cloudy, flat, disappointing beer.
What did I get? The clearest, perfectly carbonated beer I had ever brewed. I could not smell the beer very well because of a cold I had, but it tasted very clean.
Does anyone know why the beer was so cloudy and how it cleared up?
My latest batch, my fourth attempt at the "perfect" witbier, turned out funny.
You could call it "Snow Wit" witbier because it lived during fermentation through over 24 hours of no heat from power loss as a result of a snow storm (Nemo). The house was at 39F at one point before the power was restored.
For whatever reason, the wort and beer was always very cloudy for a month. Finally, I just bottled it when I saw it would never stop being cloudy. I skipped cold crashing thinking it negatively.
Weeks went by as the beer conditioned in the bottle. One day I decided to cool the dregs bottle. Meaning the last bottle filled of the batch. It was half full of beer and meant for testing.
I pushed into the freezer to cool quickly. The trouble was, I was distracted and didn't come back to the bottle until the next day and that beer pop was frozen solid.... but sealed. I placed it in the fridge to thaw.
Two days later I pop the top expecting cloudy, flat, disappointing beer.
What did I get? The clearest, perfectly carbonated beer I had ever brewed. I could not smell the beer very well because of a cold I had, but it tasted very clean.
Does anyone know why the beer was so cloudy and how it cleared up?
