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  • chill haze

    We had something very strange happen to a recent batch of our Irish Red ale. After transfer from one FV to two brite tanks, the beer in only one of the brite tanks cleared as usual. The beer in the other tank is suffering from a slight case of chill haze.

    Now, how the heck would the same of batch of beer act differently in two separate tanks? The only thing I can come up with is a bacterial infection of some kind. However, I am aware of no bacterial haze that disappears upon warming.

    Anyone want to take a stab at this?

    Thanks in advance.
    Boe Barnett
    Denali Brewing Company
    Talkeetna, Alaska

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    I can think of a few possible reasons, depending on whether or not you filter your beer: temperature stratification in the FV, one of your brite tanks not keeping beer as cold as the other (unfiltered beer, or filtered beer combined with insufficient haze removal), filter blow-through or bypassing while beer is being sent into one of the brite tanks, or one brite tank receiving more trub than another (unfiltered beer).

    Joe

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