First IPA.. Very Cloudy/Hazy

[jslive4now]

Hey everyone... First IPA is done, about 57 IBU's and Dry hopped... Still young, 3-3-1/2 weeks... Mainly Citra Hops used including the 1 oz I dry hopped with... Batch was cold crashed prior to Kegging and seemed very clear when racking to the keg.. I'm Dry hopping in the Keg...
This batch is very Cloudy almost thick looking... Anyway to determine what kind of haze is going on??? I don't think it's chill haze cause I've dealt with that before and it has never been this dense looking....

Oh, also to mention, this was a Partial/Mini mash.. I mash 4# grain and the rest was a late extract addition of 6# of LME

Any thoughts or help much appreciated...

Cheers!!!!

 

[tennesseean_87]

Dryhopping leaves my beers cloudy.

 

[ChefRex]

Hows does it taste? That's all I care about especially in an IPA, plenty of commercial IPAs are cloudy.

 

[jslive4now]

It taste great... Very Citra like... And I'm on board with the taste.. Was just asking for more future reference... And since this issue is new to me.

 

[worlddivides]

Every beer I have ever dry hopped has been at least somewhat cloudy. I recently made a double IPA (possibly a triple IPA?) that I dry hopped. It tastes amazing, but it's pretty cloudy. I've never really cared about it because the beers taste great. On the other hand, the beer I made right before that I didn't dry hop and it's crystal clear.

 

[jslive4now]

Every beer I have ever dry hopped has been at least somewhat cloudy. I recently made a double IPA (possibly a triple IPA?) that I dry hopped. It tastes amazing, but it's pretty cloudy. I've never really cared about it because the beers taste great. On the other hand, the beer I made right before that I didn't dry hop and it's crystal clear.

It does taste great... But I was looking at some other pics and found some that lead me to believe it's Starch Haze.. :-( so lesson learned...

 

[Homercidal]

Dry-hopping can leave a haze. It's an accepted style attribute.

 

[VApatriot]

I had the same thing happen with my Citra Pale Ale. I brewed it on 3/15, opened a bottle yesterday with dinner and it's just now starting to get clearer. That batch was my first attempt at dry hopping. Tastes and smells very good, it's just much cloudier than I would like.

 

[normonster]

Mine always clear after about 3 weeks on the keg....basically the last 2 pulls come out clear and taste the best because it's about kicked by then..lol.

More time at 35 degrees or so might help.

 

[stpug]

Haze should be okay for a dry hopped IPA, like this:

Cloudy/muddy should not:

I've been guilty of the latter myself

 

[jslive4now]

Haze should be okay for a dry hopped IPA, like this:

Cloudy/muddy should not:

I've been guilty of the latter myself

Ya Stpug... Mine is like your Cloudy/muddy... Lol. I did pour another last night and it seemed a tad better... But still muddy... Classic Starch Haze??? Or can Dry Hop Haze be like this too????

 

[stpug]

Ya Stpug... Mine is like your Cloudy/muddy... Lol. I did pour another last night and it seemed a tad better... But still muddy... Classic Starch Haze??? Or can Dry Hop Haze be like this too????

That's a good question to which I don't have a definitive answer. My most recent APA was fined in the primary at ~31F and racked over to a keg very (brilliantly) clear. It was then dry hopped and placed in a kegerator at ~38F. One week later it had become very cloudy (bordering on muddy) and remains fairly cloudy as we speak (2 weeks later). I have a hard time believing it's starch haze as it racked over soooo clear, and the temperature of the beer only increased afterwards which would have the effect of reducing starch haze. So my answer is: I don't know what's causing the haze. (Side note: I brewed an IPA about 2 months ago and the same exact thing happened - verbatim.)

Contrast that with: I have a special bitter that was crashed at ~31F and racked to a keg with a touch of haze. It was fined in the keg and no dry hops were used. It was pouring very clear at day 3, and today would be considered brilliant.

Same basic process for both beers with the primary exception being dry hopping in the keg, and the outcomes are starkly different. It would lead me to believe that some kind of interaction with the dry hops is causing the extreme cloudiness but I won't go so far as to conclude that's what's happening. Maybe it's keg hopping? Maybe it's a yeast dry hop interaction? Maybe it's some kind of phenol interaction? I don't know.

 

[tennesseean_87]

Haze should be okay for a dry hopped IPA, like this:

Cloudy/muddy should not:

I've been guilty of the latter myself

I had a Dunkelweizen from a brewpub in Grand Rapids that was at least that muddy. It looked like chocolate milk. Server said it's supposed to be because it's a wheat beer. It wasn't that great.

 

[stpug]

I had a Dunkelweizen from a brewpub in Grand Rapids that was at least that muddy. It looked like chocolate milk. Server said it's supposed to be because it's a wheat beer. It wasn't that great.

Maybe a weizen beer can be that "thick" and get away with it, but most beers styles aren't that muddy. If it's a weizen and it's that muddy then it better be full of some banana and clove character

 

[tennesseean_87]

I've never made a wheat beer THAT muddy. It was really ugly looking, and not that great tasting. I wonder if it was one of the last pulls and picked up too much yeast or something.