ghpeel
Well-Known Member
So I'm trying to think of an easier way to remove cold break from my No Chill beers. I've tried siphoning out the clean wort from my No Chill tank, but for me, the auto siphon gets clogged up all the time with break/hop material and is totally useless.
What I normally do is dump my entire No Chill tank of wort into a bucket lined with a paint strainer (all sanitized of course), and then pull the paint strainer up and out, which drags out all the particles from the wort. The clean wort is then poured into the fermenter or fermented right in that bucket. The problem with this is that the cold break is too fine to be caught by my paint strainer and all ends up in the fermenter.
I normally don't care, but I've started doing lagers now, and so I'd like to minimize cold break to some degree.
ANYWAY, does anyone have an opinion on using Gelatin in the No Chill tank itself prior to pitching & fermentation? Maybe adding the gelatin to the tank as I'm sealing it up right after the hot wort goes in? I can make sure the wort is 170-180F before I transfer it, but I don't think I'd want it any cooler than that.
So would doing this process make the gelatin settle down at the bottom of the tank, and drag down all the cold break with it? If so, I would siphon off the wort from the jello/break goo and proceed to pitching.
Any thoughts on this process would be appreciated!
What I normally do is dump my entire No Chill tank of wort into a bucket lined with a paint strainer (all sanitized of course), and then pull the paint strainer up and out, which drags out all the particles from the wort. The clean wort is then poured into the fermenter or fermented right in that bucket. The problem with this is that the cold break is too fine to be caught by my paint strainer and all ends up in the fermenter.
I normally don't care, but I've started doing lagers now, and so I'd like to minimize cold break to some degree.
ANYWAY, does anyone have an opinion on using Gelatin in the No Chill tank itself prior to pitching & fermentation? Maybe adding the gelatin to the tank as I'm sealing it up right after the hot wort goes in? I can make sure the wort is 170-180F before I transfer it, but I don't think I'd want it any cooler than that.
So would doing this process make the gelatin settle down at the bottom of the tank, and drag down all the cold break with it? If so, I would siphon off the wort from the jello/break goo and proceed to pitching.
Any thoughts on this process would be appreciated!