sancycling
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So I brewed a brown IPA as an experiment and the resulting color was not what I expected. It looks like coffee with cream.
I don't cold crash as I don't have fridge space... but all my beers clear nicely after about a week in the fridge.
I've had a bottle of the brown IPA in the fridge for a month and it still looks the same.
I really like how it tastes but it looks very ugly.
I keep a detailed note log of my brews and the first time I noticed the color was while bottling.
What are the things that make beer hazy? Any thoughts?
Recipe
4 gal batch
OG 1.094
FG 1.019
Grain:
Pale Ale (2 Row) 67%
Caramel/Crystal Malt 60L 9%
Maris Otter 22%
Chocolate 2%
Other fermentables
Piloncillo 1/2 lb added to boil at 15min
Mash @ 153F for 60min
Boil 90min
Wirfloc 1/3 tspn @ 10min
Hops
Galaxy 0.5 oz @ 45min
Galaxy 0.5 oz @ 30min
Galaxy 1 oz @ 10min
Galaxy 1 oz @ 5min
Galaxy 1 oz @ dry hop
Citra 0.5 oz @ dry hop
Yeast: Nottingham (rehydrated)
Fermentation: 2 weeks @ 61F and third week increased ~1F per day until I reached 68F.
Bottled adding 4oz of table sugar (boiled and cooled), and 1/4 pack of S-05 rehydrated.
I don't cold crash as I don't have fridge space... but all my beers clear nicely after about a week in the fridge.
I've had a bottle of the brown IPA in the fridge for a month and it still looks the same.
I really like how it tastes but it looks very ugly.
I keep a detailed note log of my brews and the first time I noticed the color was while bottling.
What are the things that make beer hazy? Any thoughts?
Recipe
4 gal batch
OG 1.094
FG 1.019
Grain:
Pale Ale (2 Row) 67%
Caramel/Crystal Malt 60L 9%
Maris Otter 22%
Chocolate 2%
Other fermentables
Piloncillo 1/2 lb added to boil at 15min
Mash @ 153F for 60min
Boil 90min
Wirfloc 1/3 tspn @ 10min
Hops
Galaxy 0.5 oz @ 45min
Galaxy 0.5 oz @ 30min
Galaxy 1 oz @ 10min
Galaxy 1 oz @ 5min
Galaxy 1 oz @ dry hop
Citra 0.5 oz @ dry hop
Yeast: Nottingham (rehydrated)
Fermentation: 2 weeks @ 61F and third week increased ~1F per day until I reached 68F.
Bottled adding 4oz of table sugar (boiled and cooled), and 1/4 pack of S-05 rehydrated.