elronalds
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Hi everyone, I am new the forums and have just started home brewing. I decided to start with fresh wort kits from CraftBrewer, previously I was brewing at U-BrewIt. Still waiting to buy a few bits and pieces to have a go at BIAB (I think I will just skip the kits as I have enough experience from U-BrewIt I guess).
I just finished fermenting my second batch (Amarillo Ale Brewers Selection 7 days, OG 1.040 and FG 1.014, probably could of not dilluted with the 5L of water and stuck with the OG 1.050). I kept the fermenter in a fiberglass esky with a Jaycar temp controller to monitor the temp, approx 16-19C (mostly around the 17-18C) with frozen water bottles. I also have a kegging setup and the wife purchased me a filter for my birthday as I prefer clear beer.
I just filtered the batch after cooling it in the kegerator overnight and the beer is still very cloudy. My first batch was a Aussie Pale Ale (FWK) and I tried gelatin. The gelatin cleared the beer up nicely after a week, but still not clear like the commericals. I don't really want to wait a week for gelatin so I decide to get the filter. The filtered beer didn't come close to the gelatin effort. Any ideas where I went wrong?
Both beers have a fair bitter after-taste, I assume this would be due to the US-05 at the lower temps of 16-17C? Or maybe just due to the beer style.
Anyway regarding the filtering problems, I filtered from keg to keg in the range of 0.2-0.4 bar (I guess I was doing this for around 30 minutes). I then force carbed the keg, beer still very cloudy and I can't even see through it. Can chill haze be bad enough that you can't see through the beer? I would have thought that you get chill haze building up after a few days, just my impression from reading other posts.
Would it be worth getting some Polycar VT and then filtering again as I am determined to see results from this filter purchase. Not sure if it is okay to filter again once I have carbonated the beer. Any tips there?
I just finished fermenting my second batch (Amarillo Ale Brewers Selection 7 days, OG 1.040 and FG 1.014, probably could of not dilluted with the 5L of water and stuck with the OG 1.050). I kept the fermenter in a fiberglass esky with a Jaycar temp controller to monitor the temp, approx 16-19C (mostly around the 17-18C) with frozen water bottles. I also have a kegging setup and the wife purchased me a filter for my birthday as I prefer clear beer.
I just filtered the batch after cooling it in the kegerator overnight and the beer is still very cloudy. My first batch was a Aussie Pale Ale (FWK) and I tried gelatin. The gelatin cleared the beer up nicely after a week, but still not clear like the commericals. I don't really want to wait a week for gelatin so I decide to get the filter. The filtered beer didn't come close to the gelatin effort. Any ideas where I went wrong?
Both beers have a fair bitter after-taste, I assume this would be due to the US-05 at the lower temps of 16-17C? Or maybe just due to the beer style.
Anyway regarding the filtering problems, I filtered from keg to keg in the range of 0.2-0.4 bar (I guess I was doing this for around 30 minutes). I then force carbed the keg, beer still very cloudy and I can't even see through it. Can chill haze be bad enough that you can't see through the beer? I would have thought that you get chill haze building up after a few days, just my impression from reading other posts.
Would it be worth getting some Polycar VT and then filtering again as I am determined to see results from this filter purchase. Not sure if it is okay to filter again once I have carbonated the beer. Any tips there?
