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Guys...I'm new to the homebrew scene and this forum...

I've done a couple Doric Canadian Light brews that turned out fine but when refrigerated go cloudy within a few hours and very little sediment in bottles after pouring...

Any thoughts on my problem...thanks in advance...
 
Guys...I'm new to the homebrew scene and to this forum....

I've done a couple Doric Canadian Light brews and find that they are clear in the bottles but after refrigeration for a couple hours go cloudy and very little sediment in the bottom of the bottles after pouring...

Any help with this one greatly appreciated...

Thanks from Gander, NL, Canada...
 
A couple of hours isn't long enough for suspended yeast to drop out. Try leaving them in for a couple of days.
 
Welcome to HBT!

If you have specific questions like this post in the beginner brewer area and include more details on what you did.
Many of these kit instructions are very generic but can often differ from manufacture to manufacture.
It is hard to say what is causing your problem because this is one of the cheapest kits on the market.
They likely use high protein grain (cheap 6-row); this can cause what is commonly called "protein haze". However most of these proteins should have already clumped up and fallen out; unless it contains wheat.
Polyphenols also cause it; too much low quality low alpha hops. Could have also selected a yeast with low flocculation.

Leaving it cold for a long period of time will help with some of these; especially yeast flocculation.
 
Thanks for your reply...I will certainly try a longer refrigeration cycle...
 
Chill haze. Best way to fix that is after your beer is done fermenting, get the fermentor really cold and add dissolved knox gelatin. Half a packet, dissolved in a cup of water, dump right into the fermentor, wait a few days. Then bottle.

Works FAR better at cold temperatures, especially to fix the problem you're seeing now.

Loads more info around this forum on the use of gelatin as a fining agent.
 
Problem could be from too short of time in the primary. Some details on how the beer was fermented would be helpful. Bottle conditioning time and temperature would also help.
 
My first brew, I didn't use any kind of clarifying agent. After I bottled it and let it carbonate, it did the same thing - was very hazy, couldn't even see your fingers on the other side of the glass. After about the 3rd week in the fridge, it clarified significantly. You could see through the glass and I could see items across the room through the glass. Time will clear most beer. In the future, the gelatine works like a charm. The beer is clear as soon as it's ready to drink.
 
Almost everything will drop clear given time, unless it's really abused (starch hazes, polyphenol hazes, etc, can be permanent). Most haze in beer is either from protein, suspended yeast, or from hops, and all will drop with time and cold. Even the haze-craze NEIPAs will drop bright with time unless unscrupulous brewers do something to make them artificially hazy (cough adding flour ie starch haze cough).

In your case, chill haze is typically protein and very, very common, even amongst commercial breweries who don't filter. Good process can reduce it (highly modified malt, good hot break from a proper boil, etc). Finings will help as well (irish moss or whirfloc in the kettle, and then gelatine, biofine, isinglass, brewer's clarex, or any number of other options in the fermenter). Or filtering. Or centrifuge. The latter two not really necessary or practical for the hombrewer (those hombrew-scale filters are mostly sh** anyway and I can't name a single homebrewer who centrifuges).

The trick is for cold side (ie not kettle), fining or filtering always needs to be done COLDER than serving temp. Haze causing particles, especially chill haze-causing proteins, could stay in solution warmer than serving, not be removed by whatever method, and then when you do drop to serving temp, come out of solution and form your haze.

Whirfloc in the kettle, gelatin or isinglass in the fermenter/keg after cold crashing. That's my recommendation. I've heard great things of biofine and brewer's clarex as well, but no direct experience with either.
 

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