Irish moss at start of boil?

[rhys333]

I made a mistake on my last brew, tossing in my 15 minute hops (complete with irish moss) at 60 mins instead of my bittering addition. Bonehead move for sure, but I noticed something interesting: my beer is crystal clear with no chill haze. The head dissipates after a minute or two, but other than that I've noticed no ill effects. Wondering if others have any experience with this...

 

[Hello]

I've never done it but I am willing to try it just to see.

 

[rhys333]

Not sure I'll do it again on purpose, but the results are interesting. Will be interesting to see how it develops over the next few weeks

 

[bionara]

I just did this! Let's see how it turns out. I'm not worried at all, but certainly keen to see what happens!

 

[rhys333]

Its now a few weeks after i made this oops, and yeah, all is good. Beer is crystal clear and pretty good head retention too. Interested to hear how yours turns out bionara

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[bionara]

My concern now is that i stuck too much coffee in! Trying to create a "Breakfast beer" you see! As a non-coffee drinker I naively dumped probably double what I should. It's a 1 gallon batch, so no worries. Will keep you posted!

 

[Munchkin]

I made a mistake on my last brew, tossing in my 15 minute hops (complete with irish moss) at 60 mins instead of my bittering addition. Bonehead move for sure, but I noticed something interesting: my beer is crystal clear with no chill haze. The head dissipates after a minute or two, but other than that I've noticed no ill effects. Wondering if others have any experience with this...

Were you having chill haze/cloudy issues in previous batches? Also my LHBS instructed me to use 1/2 tablet per 5 gal batch at 5 mins.

EDIT - sorry i was thinking about whirlfloc tablets, although i believe the two are basically the same thing

 

[CraigKing]

I've seen a couple recipes that include the addition of Irish Moss at the beginning of your boil (60 minutes). The last IPA I made, I added Irish Moss when my wort first started to boil.

 

[dnslater]

I stopped using Irish Moss as a 4 week primary seems to result in clear beer most of the time.

 

[JDGator]

i use it in almost all my beers. i have tossed in it anywhere from 30min down to flame out. I have not noticed any off flavors from it and the beers turn out clear.

 

[rhys333]

Were you having chill haze/cloudy issues in previous batches? Also my LHBS instructed me to use 1/2 tablet per 5 gal batch at 5 mins.

EDIT - sorry i was thinking about whirlfloc tablets, although i believe the two are basically the same thing

I get a slight chill haze in many of my beers, though only at really cold fridge temps. I prefer my beers warmer though, around 10 C, and there's usually no chill haze at this temp. I can chill this 60 minutes irish moss batch right down though and its clear no matter what. I think I'll add the IM at 30 minutes on my next batch, just to see if there's any difference.