lots of cold break in fermenter

[paulg]

today I have brewed an ag tim taylors landlord from the g wheeler book.
I use a plate chiller to cool the wort and when I had finally got the temp down to 25 degrees after putting in my brew fridge I noticed lots of white/grey type matter floating in the beer ,I assume this is cold break material
my question is I plan to put this brew in to a corny keg (this will be my first time with corny,up to now king kegs)
is it best to rack to a 2nd fermenter after a few days to remove the coild break or should I just leave it for 14 days until hydrometer is steady and then crash cool to 2 degrees and rack to corny
advise please
paul

[orlando]

If I've got this right it sounds like you haven't chilled the wort sufficiently. You need to chill to the temperature you wish to pitch at. With a plate chiller some cold break will inevitably get into the FV. Did you aerate the wort before pitching, as it maybe the residue of this? I wouldn't do anything with it. You have now set in train the fermentation and messing with it right now may cause more trouble than it cures.Let it ferment out as usual then follow the crash cool you mention and a lot if not all the trub/yeast will drop out.

[FUBAR]

today I have brewed an ag tim taylors landlord from the g wheeler book.
I use a plate chiller to cool the wort and when I had finally got the temp down to 25 degrees after putting in my brew fridge I noticed lots of white/grey type matter floating in the beer ,I assume this is cold break material
my question is I plan to put this brew in to a corny keg (this will be my first time with corny,up to now king kegs)
is it best to rack to a 2nd fermenter after a few days to remove the coild break or should I just leave it for 14 days until hydrometer is steady and then crash cool to 2 degrees and rack to corny
advise please
paul

Should'nt worry to much.I brewed a pale ale on monday and my hop filter blocked up with about 5 LTRS still in the boiler so I gave the boiler a good stir to free it and ended up with a lot of break in the FV,and the yeast seems to have dragged it out of suspension.

[gregorach]

Cold break in the FV is absolutely nothing to worry about. Leave it be.

[Bribie]

Cold break just falls to the bottom during fermentation and doesn't seem to affect the beer at all. I believe many commercial breweries filter out the cold break, or run it off from the bottom of the conical, but this is because it would take up some percentage of volume in the FV and volume is money for the commercials.

[paulg]

many thanks guys leave it alone it is then
when the time comes to put in corny what exactly is the best practice rack striaght to corny having dropped the temp or trans fer to another vessel then corny .I still cant make my mind up about forced or natural carbonation I am open to persuasion
paul