Polyclar Failure ?

[Chris The Masher]

Hi All,

I've just got into this Polyclar business with what appears to be limited success. I bottled around one week ago and could see straight through the bottles as if there was clear water within which I was of course well pleased with (crystal clear beer !!!!).

However, I moved to the shed yesterday for the cooling stage of the process and looked through the bottles this morning to see 'Fog' !

This sounds like a classic case of Chill Haze to me ?

I polycleared as per the manufacturers instruction about 5 days into the secondary (once the beer had cooled to around 2C or so) and left for another five days or so. Then Gelatined, left for a few more days and then bottled.

To be fair, it has only had one night in the cold (very cold) and I am hoping this is some sort of initial 'shock' and the beer will clear again over the next few weeks.

But it is looking like the whole purpose of the Polyclar which is to eliminate Chill Haze has not been a bundle of success !

Anyone had any similar problams ??


Any comments / advise gladly received.


Thanks,

 

[battwave]

I'm not familiar with the product you mention, but as the content of a chill haze is soluble at warmer temperatures, maybe there's no fining that would remove it?

Did it disappear when you warmed it again? If so, could you chill the ale and then use the fining product?