Belgian tripel

[tahoetavern]

I have a Belgian Tripel that has been in primary for almost 5 weeks. I do not have a secondary, how long can I leave it to clarify before I bottle?

 

[Pie_Man]

On a homebrew scale, you are not going to have yeast autolysis for much longer, so you can leave it in the primary for another few weeks without issue. If you can cold crash the beer, that will speed up clarifying. If not, the beer should clear on its own over time. At five weeks, I am surprised it is not clear already. If you keg, you can also rack to the keg and finish up clearing in there.

 

[tahoetavern]

I eventually want to keg. Once I upgrade my system. still bottling for now though.

 

[BigFloppy]

Kegging doesn't guarantee beer clarity, only patience will do that... unless you want to force clarify by adding finings