Canning / Bottling NEIPA style beers.

[Dornbox]

Has anyone here successfully canned or bottle a cloudy puffy NEIPA style beer? I recently brewed a Focal Banger inspired Pale Ale by The Alchemist. For the uninitiated it's basically like Heady Topper's little sibling which is a highly sought after NEIPA in the US. Anyway, the beer is awesome (and I'm not even a really fan of the style) and I'll probably brew it again for years to come. The problem is that I'd like to can it to share it more easily, which I recently did. The problem lies with that on tap, the beer is still super puffy and cloudy but in the can it is clearer and much sharper tasting. The canned version does surprisingly retain a lot of the softer qualities of the beer on tap and it is still a good beer, but it's definitely different in the can. On tap its more like soft creamy pineapple and in the can it's a bit more like pineapple juice with a bit of bite. Has anyone captured these beers at home in a can or bottle that was as good as it was on tap?

Background 411:
-I can from a keg
-I purged the cans
-Cans were filled while sealed under counter pressure
-I capped on foam.

The only thing I can gather is that when I pull a glass or two from the keg, I always have plenty of settling hop haze for my pours vs when I canned the case, I was pulling clearer beer after the first few cans.

In the future, I guess I could number my first 6 cans or so then run an Xbeerment but for now I can only wonder.

Thoughts?

Many thanks!

 

[Minbari]

sorry, you are doing what I would do.

 

[Dornbox]

@Minbari So you experience the same issue with your cans / bottles not being just as puffy as your keg pours? Or you just don't brew cloudy beers!?!?!? Lol

 

[Minbari]

@Minbari So you experience the same issue with your cans / bottles not being just as puffy as your keg pours? Or you just don't brew cloudy beers!?!?!? Lol

if you mean they dont pour with as a full head, yes. not sure why, maybe it just doesnt get disturbed as much as it does going through the tubing and faucet, so it doesnt foam as much.

I have done cloudy beers, some on purpose

 

[Dornbox]

I have done cloudy beers, some on purpose

That’s funny! No I was talking more about the flavor change and it doesn’t seem to be oxidization either but I don’t know. I worked through quite a few short pours tonight and I think it’s all do to the bottom of the keg. If I pour a lot off I get to clearer beer but if I pull
A little off at a time I get more yeast and hop haze which in this beer positively effects the flavor. But who knows. Beer is magic.

 

[Minbari]

That’s funny! No I was talking more about the flavor change and it doesn’t seem to be oxidization either but I don’t know. I worked through quite a few short pours tonight and I think it’s all do to the bottom of the keg. If I pour a lot off I get to clearer beer but if I pull
A little off at a time I get more yeast and hop haze which in this beer positively effects the flavor. But who knows. Beer is magic.

I wonder if you get some settling of "stuff" between pours?

I use floating dips, so it always pulls from the middle.

 

[GFHomebrew]

Yeah with drawing from the bottom of keg usually the first few are cloudy then they clear up to a certain level of briteness.

Usually if you move the keg then you'll get some trub again for a pour or two then it should clear up.