Cold crashing on the yeast cake good or bad?

[donjonson]

I brewed an omegang Hennepin clone exactly 4 weeks ago. It has been in primary the whole time and now I plan to cold crah for a few days and then keg it. (first time kegging a homebrew)

So I guess my questions is. Can I cold crash right in the primary or should I rack it to a secondary then cold crash/ keg.

 

[DocScott]

Do it in the primary

 

[TNGabe]

Cold crashing in primary is a-ok.

 

[F250]

Right or wrong, it's what I would do. :rockin:

Rick

 

[BrewerBrennan]

Yuuuuup, thats what I do. It kind of makes sense to me. If you cold crash in the primary and then rack off into a secondary/keg, you'll leave all the stuff that dropped out behind.

 

[Dan]

Right or wrong, it's what I would do. :rockin:

Rick

Me too and it's what I do.

OP, is there a specific worry that comes to mind when cold crashing in the primary?

 

[estricklin]

Heck I'm dry hopping and cold crashing in primary. Only thing I secondary on is lagers.

I could go on about how secondary isn't needed and blah blah but the truth is I'm kind of lazy.

 

[donjonson]

Me too and it's what I do.

OP, is there a specific worry that comes to mind when cold crashing in the primary?

No specifc concern other than my own ignorance. I didn't know of a problem but "you don't know what you don't know" lol

 

[BudzAndSudz]

There's no issue with it either way, but I always rack to secondary before crashing. If the beer settles well in primary, then you rack to secondary and crash before you keg, it's just one more stage of clarification that benefit the appearance of your beer.