Clarity of Final Beer

[John H]

My first was a 19L Epic Pale Ale clone, with around 150g of boil hops, and another 100g dry hops. I think many people noticed what looked like a lot of Trub getting into the fermenter.

I fermented mine for a week (incl 100g dry hops spread into 2 additions thrown straight into fermenter), kegged (filtered using a small sanitised swiss voile bag and added1 t/s of gelatine in water solution into the keg)

I had my first taste this weekend after a week in the keg and it was great. It seems to have much better clarity than my usual BIAB offering - considering it is only in the keg for a week.

How are your first GF brews turning out?

[Mark Thomas]

I tried cold-crashing my Chur! clone this weekend in preparation for kegging, but got hit by the power cut! Hopefully the home brewery will be back in action tomorrow :)

[Dene McDonald]

My GF arrives tomorrow so I can't comment on clarity, but I'm gong to do some experiments with my immersion chiller so I can chill in the GF, whirlpool, then transfer over. I also plan to use gelatin in the fermenter for the last few days so hoping for a nice clear beer.

Any sign of DMS or anything buttery?

[John H]

No off flavours that I could detect - but then again I'm no beer judge. I rushed this one as my kegs were dry.

I have had astringency issues several times before so I was looking out for this. I was glad not to find astringency in my first GF brew.

[Dene McDonald]

I've had off flavour problems in the past with my old BIAB setup when I was recircing. I was getting a consistent phenol off flavour that I couldn't shake. I think it was due to hot pockets in my bag when I was recircing as I had 2 x 2.4 kw elements fire by a PID controller - I suspect I just needed to be able to dial back the power during the mash like the GF can. 

[Mark Weusten]

I will be cold crashing my Epic PA clone and Chur tomorrow then bottling in the weekend. The Epic PA has a good clarity now but cant say the same of the Chur, its a bit murky. I blame it on the M44, took ages to start then finished 2 days later. Will take a FG tomorrow and if its not where it should be I  wont cold crash.

[Peter Smith]

Mark the 1272 will drop clear without gelatine

[Mark Weusten]

I'm impressed with this yeast Peter, it will be my new go to......

[Peter Smith]

it has a lot of commercial users......

[Mark Thomas]

I found that the Chur (using M44) cleared up pretty well with cold crashing. There's still a chill haze which I don't mind.

[Matt Poff]

Same - sampled my first last night and looked pretty good. Tasted good with no off flavours and good fruit notes. A bit sticky but balanced out in hops - that's my fault though... fermented at 1.066 and finished at 1.014 so estimate about 6.7% ABV. Not one to operate heavy machinery after.