Glossary
Cold crash
Chilling finished beer sharply, usually to near freezing, to force yeast and haze-forming proteins out of suspension.
Also called crash cool, cold crashing.
Related
- Flocculation — What cold crashing accelerates.
- Chill haze — What it helps precipitate before packaging.
More vocabulary
Arrested fermentation · Barrel ageing · Batch sparging · Biotransformation · Blending · Bottle conditioning · Bottom fermentation · Burtonisation · Cask conditioning · Centrifugation
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Last reviewed 2026-08-16.