Secondary and Cold Crashing

[Dave46382]

Assuming that a lot of brewers don't rack after the primary fermentation and just let their beer secondary in the same primary container until bottling/kegging....I have a question about cold crashing.

Should I secondary as long as I feel appropriate and then cold crash or can I combine the secondary and cold crashing in the same step, ie, time duration?

Or maybe the better question should be is cold crashing even worth it (for non competition brewers)?

 

[Hammy71]

You can cold crash the primary or secondary. It clears the beer. I've never entered a contest, but often crash some of my beers. If you don't mind the looks of your beer in its natural state, then don't worry about it.

 

[samc]

I cold crash the primary! Why bother with transferring to 2ndary unless you are adding something or long term bulk aging? I have started to always cold crash as I like to drop out as much as I can before kegging without adding Gelatin or other stuff.