Too cold crash or not?

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ol-hazza

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I currently have two beers in the fermentation chamber, one made on the 27/12/14and one on 2/01/15.
The first was racked onto gelatin yesterday and i want to cold crash, but am not sure if i should,

A, remove the younger beer and sit in a swamp cooler, crash the older brew.
B, crash both beers now.
C, wait and crash them next week.

I have no real hurry and am not particularly worried about beer sitting on the yeast and (huge amount of) trub.

Beers are ales with sg of 1.060 and 1.052' both fully attenuated.

Your opinions please
 
No. Remove the younger beer and let it sit at room temperature. Any off flavors would have developed a week or more ago so letting it warm up will do nothing but encourage the yeast to eat any intermediate products. While cold crashing will drop out the yeast, so will time at room temperature, it just takes a few more days.
 

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