Cold Crashing too high maintenence...

[libeerty]

That's a cool pic.

 

[Cider123]

I make my beer for me. I don't really care if people are scared of cloudy beer. I'll start crashing if I enter some into a competition. For now I'm completely happy with a little chill haze.

+1 to this.

If interested, https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/i-like-cloudy-beer-407272/

 

[RCCOLA]

That's a cool pic.

Had to jack the glass off and snap the pic quickly due to the condensation. That was one happy Helles.:cross:

 

[ballsy]

+1 to this.

If interested, https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/i-like-cloudy-beer-407272/

I'm no fan of clear beer either....the first cask beer I had was in Portland OR and I actually liked how unfiltered it was....but cloudy and chunks floating off bottom are two different things IMO.

 

[BigFloyd]

On Gel:

I brew a lot of light colored(and flavored) lagers. I have 7 lagers on tap right now and 5 are 4 SRM or less. Lager yeast is not as flocculent as ale yeast and will greatly affect the flavor of these beers. The pic I posted above is of a recipe I regularly brew, my house lager.

That was the first time I've gelled it and the difference between it and the non-gelled version is striking--Both in clarity and flavor. It tastes like a commercial, filtered beer and will be gelled from here on.

I've been brewing a series of lagers with the new Mangrove Jack's M84 lager yeast. That stuff is hazier than wheat beer. I didn't gel one batch with it and it's not as clear or clean tasting as one brewed 3 weeks later. Here's the gelled Helles at 36F serving temp 4 weeks from brewday:

Very nice. Are you gelling in the keg or did you bottle this?

 

[RCCOLA]

Very nice. Are you gelling in the keg or did you bottle this?

I chilled the beer to 32F and then racked to a bucket on top of gel for a few days with the fridge set to 32F. Then to keg with a few bottled--I brew 7gal batches and bottle what doesn't fit in the keg. No problems with bottle carbonation post-gel either.

 

[BigFloyd]

I chilled the beer to 32F and then racked to a bucket on top of gel for a few days with the fridge set to 32F. Then to keg with a few bottled--I brew 7gal batches and bottle what doesn't fit in the keg. No problems with bottle carbonation post-gel either.

That's good to know. Thanks.

I gel most of my keg stuff and will have to consider doing the next bottle batch as well.