NO CHILL beer, and chill haze... UGH

[thelorax121]

Do you filter your beer before kegging, or are you just using the crash cooling

 

[The Pol]

Never filtered... I crash for a day or so prior to kegging.

 

[wehumble]

If you're using a sanke keg, you could fill it with hot wort and then pressurize with say 20 psi CO2. As the wort cools and contracts, the CO2 would expand and the pressure drop. PV=nRT don't you know.

Not to be contrary, Pol, but could the fact you're kegging be the real secret to your clarity? I've never had homebrew as clear and brite as I do now from the kegerator.

 

[The Pol]

If you're using a sanke keg, you could fill it with hot wort and then pressurize with say 20 psi CO2. As the wort cools and contracts, the CO2 would expand and the pressure drop. PV=nRT don't you know.

Not to be contrary, Pol, but could the fact you're kegging be the real secret to your clarity? I've never had homebrew as clear and brite as I do now from the kegerator.

Where did I say that ANYTHING was a secret to clarity? I hate answering questions about claims I never made.

 

[flyangler18]

Where did I say that ANYTHING was a secret to clarity? I hate answering questions about claims I never made.

A little defensive, aren't we?

wehumble - to answer the query, prolonged cold storage is extremely effective in achieving star-bright beer.

 

[The Pol]

Tired of answering baseless questions on HBT.

Concerns abound that no chill beer WILL NOT clear, cold storage or not... that was the entire point of this thread.

 

[chefchris]

Tired of answering baseless questions on HBT.

Concerns abound that no chill beer WILL NOT clear, cold storage or not... that was the entire point of this thread.

I don't see how people aren't understanding this either.



Look, people were worried about the clarity of no chill beer. So The Pol posted a picture of a no chill beer so you could see with your own eyes how clear it can be. He didn't say it was more clear than other methods, he said clear beer is ALSO possible with no chill.

So simple a homebrewer could do it.

 

[KingBrianI]

How the hell do you pour a beer at 34 degrees and not have condensation all over that glass? My glasses get condensation on them before the pour is over!

 

[ChshreCat]

Jeez, why does The Pol have to go on here and claim that only he can produce clear beer with his no chill technique. What a know-it-all!




KIDDING!!! I'm KIDDING!!!

 

[The Pol]

How the hell do you pour a beer at 34 degrees and not have condensation all over that glass? My glasses get condensation on them before the pour is over!

You wipe it OFF before the photo, otherwise you cannot see the clarity? I know, I know... pure genius.

 

[The Pol]

Jeez, why does The Pol have to go on here and claim that only he can produce clear beer with his no chill technique. What a know-it-all!




KIDDING!!! I'm KIDDING!!!

You know, no chill IS the only way that you can get clear beer, period...

AND I am the ONLY one that can do it... honest. Read the thread.

 

[pnj]

Hahahahhaha. man....

34 seems awfully cold to me.

 

[weirdboy]

Not only because of this thread, but I'm definitely on the bandwagon at this point. I plan to no-chill my next batch just so I can finish my brew day an hour earlier.

 

[The Pol]

Hahahahhaha. man....

34 seems awfully cold to me.

It is hot as hell out, I like cold beer, sue me.

I hate stouts and porters too... I know, I need to be shot on sight.

 

[M@!]

I just spent $30 on 50' of copper on craigslist and only for that reason I don't believe no chill is real.

 

[ChshreCat]

It is hot as hell out, I like cold beer, sue me.

I hate stouts and porters too... I know, I need to be shot on sight.

Well, if you're going to test if a brewing technique causes you chill haze, you might as well chill that mother way down to see.

 

[The Pol]

Well, if you're going to test if a brewing technique causes you chill haze, you might as well chill that mother way down to see.

You know, if it had been like 45F there would have been some tool saying..

"you know, that is not THAT cold... I bet it has haze when it is really cold"

Screw that tool...

 

[MikeG]

I can't tell what kind of car that is, shoulda used a chiller! Seriously, I've never been one way or the other but even though I hate cleaning next to bottling I'm glad to just get it down to temps and clean everything in one day.

Point is you don't use any kind of chiller and you get excellent clarity. :rockin:

 

[Tonedef131]

What's the brewers cup?

The Indiana State Fair beer competition, thought you might have entered living in Indy. Are you part of a club down there?

 

[WortMonger]

Wouldnt the yeast die at those temps?

Or would it only be introduced after complete cooling?

After cooling!

I pitch under temp, and then let it rise to fermentation temperatures. Mine would go into my Sanke fermenter inside my chest freezer. I would put a fan in the freezer to circulate the air around the keg better while cooling. Wonder how much I can drop the temperature overnight in that setup?

 

[bakins]

Not to be contrary, Pol, but could the fact you're kegging be the real secret to your clarity? I've never had homebrew as clear and brite as I do now from the kegerator.

I bottle. I no-chill. My beer is clear. No claims about any long term stability made, but so far, so good.

(Well, I keg as well, but I bottle about 2/3's of my batches)

 

[bakins]

Wonder how much I can drop the temperature overnight in that setup?

I put my cube in my fermentation chiller (a milk cooler) that's set at 60 (that's the ambient temp 90% of my beers get fermented at) and I've pitched as early as 12 hours. I put my cube in the corner where it has direct cold wall contact on 2 sides - I get frost on the walls. My cooler will only run for so long before kicking off, so if the temp in my basement is higher, it takes longer - or that's my working theory.

18 hours is usually how long I wait - just because I usually finish up mid day on brew day and then pitch the next morning.

 

[The Pol]

I am brewing my Hugh Heffe this week... we will see if that clears as well as all the others.






























snicker.

 

[brrman]

hah hah. touche

 

[Homercidal]

Yeah, that'll work...

 

[jason.mundy]

Hello Pol. Bumping an old thread.

I followed this a while back. Just looking at US plastics today. I am considering getting a couple of Winpaks.

Are you still doing the no chill method for every batch?

 

[Hugh_Jass]

Hello Pol. Bumping an old thread.

I followed this a while back. Just looking at US plastics today. I am considering getting a couple of Winpaks.

Are you still doing the no chill method for every batch?

Jason,
It appears Pol has a chiller on his new rig.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/kill-watt-brewery-build-compilation-158348/

 

[ibbones]

I'm still doing mine the no-chill way. I do like it.

 

[The Pol]

Hello Pol. Bumping an old thread.

I followed this a while back. Just looking at US plastics today. I am considering getting a couple of Winpaks.

Are you still doing the no chill method for every batch?

I am still no chilling (though I have not brewed in about 4-5 months while I have been selling and building my rigs and such)

I have a chiller on my new rig, but I also had a chiller on my old rig... sometimes I use it, sometimes I dont

 

[Homercidal]

I need to find a smaller vessel to try this with. I want to start brewing 2.5 gallon batches and during the winter it will be so easy to do this. Could probably pitch in a couple of hours.