cloudy beer

can reusing yeast from previous batches of all grain beer make beer cloudy and how can i clear it once in seconday?

It won't necessarily make it cloudier than the previous batch. Just give it more time.

i'd say that it might, depending on the yeast you harvested. if you harvested from a secondary, for instance, you will be selecting for less flocculant yeast. same thing if you just happened to get predominantly less flocculant yeast from the primary, by chance, or due to your washing process. if the yeast has gone for multiple generations, there may also be some mutation drift causing it to become less flocculant.


just my 2 cents.

steve25 said:

can reusing yeast from previous batches of all grain beer make beer cloudy and how can i clear it once in seconday?

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If you have somehow selected a less flocculent strain, you might want to try cold crashing your beer in secondary to clear the reluctant yeasties.

wendelgee2 said:

If you have somehow selected a less flocculent strain, you might want to try cold crashing your beer in secondary to clear the reluctant yeasties.

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thanks, iam going to brew a batch in the next two days with a new strain of yeast purchased at LHBS to see if it settles clear in secondary to determine if it was yeast.

No need to do that...it is the yeast versus time and temperature.

If any brew (except a Hefe Weizen) is still cloudy when you bottle it then you bottled too soon.

Yes, it's that simple....

Cold Crash it and/or use some gelatin to clear it up.