Fri May 12, 2006 7:04 am
Chilling will drop yeast pretty quickly, but chill haze will take longer. That hop haze might take months if you just use chilling to drop it.
If you are serious about the whole thing, filter it.
If you are not quite that serious, then here is something else to try.
Mix up some polyclar and gelatin, put those in the keg, seal and purge, and shake it up to disperse them in the beer. If you have one of those kegs with the straight dip tube, use that one.
Lay your keg down in your fridge or chest freezer with the "out" fitting on top and the "in" fitting on the bottom. Drop the temp down close to freezing. Wait a week or so.
Rig up a beer QD to attach your CO2 source to the beer out post on the sideways keg. Make up a gas-to-beer jumper and hook that up to the gas side of the sideways keg and to the beer side of a clean receiving keg. Carefully prop up the "bottom" (the side away from the fittings) of the sideways keg with a small block so you have a small angle toward the fittings. Gently push your beer from the sideways keg to the upright receiving keg.
The benefit of all this is that the haze only has to drop a few inches (the width of the keg) rather than a couple of feet (the height of the keg) to clear. The stumpy gas-in dip tube will give you some space above the accumulate sludge to draw clear beer.
Whew! Sounds like a lot of work to me. I think I would go to the local thrift store, buy some ceramic mugs, and tell my friends they must use those to drink this beer!
