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Expert: - 3/9/2009


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has been left in shed after fermenting for three weeks now but it still very cloudy is this ok

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Might be OK, Brett, probably too early to tell.

Different yeasts take different amounts of time to drop out. A lot depends on what the temperature of the beer has been out there in the shed. If it's close to 32 degrees then it normally be starting to clear up by now.  If it's around 50 then it could easily be still cloudy.

Luckily, nothing you can do to beer can make it so that it will hurt you.

I'd give it another couple of weeks to see if it clears. If it doesn't, then give it a taste test.

Good luck Brett,

Chris Bushman

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I've been homebrewing beer and mead for about 15 years. I've made beer trips to the Netherlands, the UK, France, Germany, and Belgium.

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I've brewed a couple of hundred all-grain beers and a few dozen meads. I'm a member of the Maltose Falcon's Homebrew Society, the oldest homebrew club in the US. I've attended the Homebrewers Fantasy Camp at American Brewers Guild. In real life I am Optical Effects Supervisor and Laboratory Supervisor for a large movie visual effects house in Hollywood. I've been a fireman, a teacher of English in Okinawa, a personal computer tutor. Other hobbies include orchid culture, koi keeping, photography, sausage making, pickling, and ham radio.

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