Cask Conditioned NEIPA Help

Are you wanting brite beer? Then fine it. If you're worried about stripping out flavor and aroma I wouldn't bother.

 

The more I think about this, the more I wonder if the isinglass would have any effect on it at all anyway. From my understanding isinglass has a magnetic charge that helps pull things out of suspension, however it could be a possibility that the polyphenols from the yeast esters hop polyphenols polyphenols charges which may explain why they bond together so well? I don't know just thinking out loud now...

 

From my perspective the rationale for utilizing finings is to produce a clear beer. Since the so called ‘NE’ style IPA is intended to be a non-clear beer I do not see the sense of fining this sort of beer regardless of serving method.

Cheers!

 

I suspect the state of the science is not there yet. Would need to identify the beneficial haze-causing particles, which I will call j-particles, for juicy, and then identify a way to strip out all the extraneous, non-beneficial haze, leaving behind the good stuff. Rumor has it a hop/IPA book will soon be released. Perhaps the j-particles will be revealed.

 

Hmm. You certainly are at the threshold of science. Not being sarcastic either.
Try it. Then try the other way. I have a supposition that you are doing the work of the lord here.

 

Yup, Scott Janish is planning on writing the book and he plans to write a Chapter 5 of “Haze and Hops”.

Whether there will be definitive scientific results on what exactly constitutes the turbidity/murkiness of the so called ‘NE’ style IPA remains to be seen.

Cheers!

http://scottjanish.com/book-announcement/

Cheers!

 

You say "planning on writing" and I thought I heard "soon to be released." Hopefully I'm closer to the truth.

 

FWIW, I recently used gelatin finings on a NEIPA and a NEPA. Normally this would produce a bright beer for me, with say a traditional ale recipe. In this case, it only had a slight effect. I would say it took some of the haze out, I didn't wind up with an opaque beer like many NEIPAs, but the resulting beer is still very hazy. There was still a lot of hop character / J-particles left over, but I felt as though it stripped some of the oomph out of both beers. I won't do it again.

 

J particles are probably related to quarks, strings, possibly dark matter.