Brewing with Clarity: How to Prevent Haze and Home Brew Beautiful Beer

The first thing that any person notices about a beer fresh out of the bottle is its appearance. We see the color, the head, and especially the clarity. If the appearance is off in any way the beer will be judged as an inferior product. If your homebrew is the specimen in question this can be devastating. This book will walk you through each step of the brewing process and explain how to prevent haze and create a beautiful, high-clarity beer that your friends and family are excited to taste. The decisions, processes, and additives that can be used to keep haze out of home brewed beer is addressed at each stage of the brewing process - ingredient selection, mashing and sparging (for all grain brewers), boiling, cooling, and fermentation. Topics covered include: -The causes of haze -Considerations for choosing ingredients -Improving the mash and sparge processes -Improving the boiling and cooling processes -Enhancing the fermentation process -Cold Crashing -Filtering beer -Using fining agents -And more...