• Please visit and share your knowledge at our sister communities:
  • If you have not, please join our official Homebrewing Facebook Group!

    Homebrewing Facebook Group

Clarity Ferm - Issues

Homebrew Talk

Help Support Homebrew Talk:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

edsa1984

Active Member
Joined
Aug 5, 2016
Messages
26
Reaction score
3
I've brewed a really pale beer a few weeks back and for the first time used Clarity Ferm. While it Is clearing, it is taking a long time compared to either gelatin or even just natural bottle conditioning. I wonder if anyone uses it regularly and what the benefit is? For the cost as it stands, I'll continue with gelatin but I'm wondering I there's longer-term or flavour/aroma benefits as this current beer smells nice and tastes how I should (very hoppy!) I'd appreciate anyone's advice/experience
 
Clarity ferm isnt a fining agent. It reduces the amount of chill haze in a beer. So you can still have hop chunks and yeast floating around in the beer but it will be clear when its cold. Clarity ferm also reduces gluten protein strands in beer.

From White Labs Website:

"Chill haze in beer results from the precipitation of complexed polyphenols and proteins during cold storage. This haze develops over time and, initially, is reversible (haze disappears when the temperature of the beer increases). Eventually this chill haze can become permanent.

Clarity Ferm will prevent the precipitation of complexed polyphenols and proteins by hydrolyzing the sensitive (haze-active) polypeptides in the region where such hydrogen bonding occurs. The specificity of the enzyme ensures that no other beer parameters are affected.

In addition to eliminating chill haze, Clarity Ferm significantly reduces the gluten content in beers made with barley and wheat. A Clarity-Ferm treated beer made from barley or wheat usually tests below 20 ppm of gluten, the current international standard for gluten free. White Labs offers gluten testing for beers, this test will allow brewers to know the gluten level of the beers it produces, but brewers are not allowed to use this value on their labels until the FDA completes its validation."
 
Thanks. I just wondered if there's any reason why this beer, compared to others I've brewed without CF is taking so long to clear? Even compared to beers with no fining agent at all. I can see the beer is going to be crystal in time, it's just taking a loooong time....
 
What was your grist? I never use any finings in my beer. I always transfer to keg and let it "cold crash" in the keg. I use clarity ferm on every batch and love the product
 
7lbs 2-row, 4.4lbs Vienna, 0.6 wheat. Its an exact replica of another brew that cleared in 5-7days except this time I used CF and dry hopped with Chinook?
 
I would be inclined to blame the wheat but thats not much wheat. My next thing to blame would be the trub getting in the keg. That being said, when did you add the clarity ferm?
 
Ah, should have said, they're bottled! Anyway, I don't think it's the wheat as I use that In all my brews. It could be the trub, although again, I've done nothing different to before
 
Back
Top