Clarity of beer

[minesa1664]

Hello guys

I have been brewing for a number of years now and got great results BUT never got crystal clear beer. In the last national home brew comp all my beers were marked down on the clarity.

Could I have some tips and advice

My method is as follows

1. I add Irish moss at 15 mins left in the brew.
2. I chill using a counter flow chiller. I do recycle the wort through the boiler to the counter flow chiller 2 or 3 times to get to 30oC
3. I ferment for a week mostly to final gravity in Ss brew bucket with a conical bottom.
4. I add youngs isinglass for 48hrs at 2oC
5. Then transfer after a week to cornilius kegs for 2 weeks and then drink. I don't syphon again just drink from keg.

Any ideas??

Cheers

Will

 

[MyQul]

Everything I know about how to make clear beer is in this article so saves me typing

http://beermumbo.com/clear-homebrew/

 

[ManseMasher]

Three weeks from brew to pouring? Seems short to me, by about a third. All my brews go through this cycle - 2 + 2 + 2. 2 weeks, fv - keg/bottle, 2 weeks same temp as fermentation, 2 weeks somewhere cool (10 - 12°c). Works for me.

 

[minesa1664]

Cheers mansemasher is the 2nd two weeks in cornilius keg under co2 pressure or just in fermenter?

 

[nbpicklesno2]

Have you tried auxiliary finings?

 

[Cwrw666]

Never had a crystal clear beer in 40+ years of homebrewing. If gaining points in a competition is the only reason, switch to wheat beers - they're meant to be cloudy.:lol:

 

[simon12]

If you are force carbing it you could use a filter, you would need CO2 pressure to force it through so you would also need a spare corny and its not cheap anyway but its what commercial lager (lager process not style) breweries would use and guarantees crystal clear beer. I don't know that much about it but I think at 0.5 micron it takes out all yeast and other potential organisms as well as any particles.

 

[Fil]

only ever used finnings once or twice and they never added any clarity to the beer, patience in an undisturbed keg is the answer imho, tho when pouring a crystal clear pint out of my tap/ standard corny system my heart sinks as the clearest pint is always the last full pint to get pulled form a corny..


As the beer clears from the top down in a corny and your suck up from the bottom of the keg you could consider using a float and 2nd short dip tube instead of the long dip tube fitted, that way you draw the clearest beer from the top of the keg, I have 3 cornys fitted with a 2nd short gas in dip tube and http://www.caskwidge.com/ 'red' floats fitted with silicone tube.. the floats draw the clearest beer from the top of the keg but dont sink all the way to the bottom leaving the beer in the bottom dome untouched, so slightly less beer out but its all clear....