What is crash cooling?
Crash Cooling?
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Taking your secondary or keg that has been freshly racked and placing it into your fridge (or whatever) and getting it down to about 35-37 degrees.Chris_Dog said:
It helps to force the beer to settle out much quicker for a clearer beer.
You are essentially (secondary) conditioning the beer at cold temperatures.
Funkenjaeger
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Chilling your beer, which clears it more quickly as it causes yeast/etc to settle out more rapidly than it would at room temp. Generally you would do this at the end of secondary before bottling/kegging I believe.
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mot said:
also I find that if you just bottle and then alow enough time for the beer to settle out in the botttle you can skip this step (cold conditioning) in the secondary. also Crash cooling or cold conditioning helps to eliminate and settle out any chill haze. I will usually let my beers sit for a week or two in the keg to allow any chill haze to settle out before tapping them.
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