HI,
I recently brewed a batch using 50% 2 row Pils and 50% Torified wheat,
coriander and bitter orange. The beer looked really cloudy after 2 weeks in
the secondary so I used gelatin as a fining agent and the beer cleared
within a couple of days. After 3 weeks in the bottle the beer is excellent,
but has white flecks floating in it. No off taste.
Any ideas what went wrong?
Chuck

Isn't a belgian wit supposed to be really cloudy. There will allways be
yeast in the bottle, I'm sure the flakes are just yeast !!

Kasper
Denmark


"Chuck" <fredj@peoplepc.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:vi2gvj47chh50e@corp.supernews.com...[color=blue]
> HI,
> I recently brewed a batch using 50% 2 row Pils and 50% Torified wheat,
> coriander and bitter orange. The beer looked really cloudy after 2 weeks[/color]
in[color=blue]
> the secondary so I used gelatin as a fining agent and the beer cleared
> within a couple of days. After 3 weeks in the bottle the beer is[/color]
excellent,[color=blue]
> but has white flecks floating in it. No off taste.
> Any ideas what went wrong?
> Chuck
>
>[/color]

Chuck wrote:[color=blue]
>
> HI,
> I recently brewed a batch using 50% 2 row Pils and 50% Torified wheat,
> coriander and bitter orange. The beer looked really cloudy after 2 weeks in
> the secondary so I used gelatin as a fining agent and the beer cleared
> within a couple of days. After 3 weeks in the bottle the beer is excellent,
> but has white flecks floating in it. No off taste.
> Any ideas what went wrong?[/color]

A wit is _supposed_ to be cloudy! If it's not, it's a flaw and marked
down in competition! Wit measn white, which comes from the cloudiness
of the beer.

----------->Denny

--
Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.

I've drunk lots of wit and know it's cloudy, but this is flakes of something
floating. the cloudiness is there as well.
Oh well, I guess I will just enjoy it.
Thanks for the comments
Chuck

"Chuck" <fredj@peoplepc.com> wrote in message
news:vi2gvj47chh50e@corp.supernews.com...[color=blue]
> HI,
> I recently brewed a batch using 50% 2 row Pils and 50% Torified wheat,
> coriander and bitter orange. The beer looked really cloudy after 2 weeks[/color]
in[color=blue]
> the secondary so I used gelatin as a fining agent and the beer cleared
> within a couple of days. After 3 weeks in the bottle the beer is[/color]
excellent,[color=blue]
> but has white flecks floating in it. No off taste.
> Any ideas what went wrong?
> Chuck
>
>[/color]

[color=blue]
> I've drunk lots of wit and know it's cloudy,[/color]


Then why did you use finings ??

Kasper
Denmark

Chuck wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I've drunk lots of wit and know it's cloudy, but this is flakes of something
> floating. the cloudiness is there as well.
> Oh well, I guess I will just enjoy it.
> Thanks for the comments[/color]

I'd guess that the gelatin made clumps of protein from the wheat stick
together and that's what the flakes are. Kinda hard to tell without
actually seeing it, though.

----------->Denny

--
Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.

Kasper Malmberg wrote:[color=blue]
>[color=green]
> > I've drunk lots of wit and know it's cloudy,[/color]
>
> Then why did you use finings ??[/color]

That's what I'd like to know, too...

---------->Denny

--
Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Chuck wrote:
[color=blue]
> HI,
> I recently brewed a batch using 50% 2 row Pils and 50% Torified wheat,
> coriander and bitter orange. The beer looked really cloudy after 2 weeks in
> the secondary so I used gelatin as a fining agent and the beer cleared
> within a couple of days. After 3 weeks in the bottle the beer is excellent,
> but has white flecks floating in it. No off taste.
> Any ideas what went wrong?
> Chuck[/color]
Sounds like it coud be a contaminant, but since it tastes good,
don't worry. Be sure you clean the bottles well so you don't have flecks
in the next beer. Is there a ring around the beer surface in the bottle?
Warren Place