Cold Crashing Questions

[Mister-Kingdom]

Hi I have read a lot of threads speaking about this matter but didn't quite feel comfortable doing it without asking myself. I have two 1 Gallon carboys of beer a 9% ABV Double IPA and a 6 1/2% ABV English Bitter. I want to cold crash these in my fridge for a clearer beer.
My question is how long should I leave it in the fridge? And should I repitch yeast before bottle conditioning? If so how much? One more thing I'm also planing on dry hopping the IPA for 7 days with pellet hops. Will cold crashing also help settle out the hop particles?

 

[Revvy]

24 hoursw is fine to cold crash...you don't need to repitch for bottling, you just reduce the yeast from billions to millions... it doesn't tend to settle out hop particles, simply racking to your bottling bucket letting the hops sink to the trub does.

 

[koontzjr]

If you also fine with gelatin does that change things?

 

[virgil1]

They are just 1 gallon each, so a day should be good. You could do two just to be safe. If you want it to drop more, try gelatin. Works great. This time, I would skip the gelatin. I would let it cold crash two days, and then bottle it. You don't need to add yeast again. Just store your bottles at room temp while they carbonate(don't put them right back in the fridge after you bottle them). Let them sit for at least a week. 10-14 days is even better. Then put them in the fridge. Anything still floating around should settle out again in the bottle after you put them back in the fridge. See how that works for you. Then try gelatin next time.

This site has a good explanation of how to do it. I would guess you wouldn't need much of it at all!
http://brulosophy.com/2015/01/05/the-gelatin-effect-exbeeriment-results/