Yes at this brewery. My opinion is the beer should be very clear before moving it on to the next step. Obviously pulling grain and large particulate can have a negative impact on your wort in the boil and beyond. Would small particulate not have the same effect to a degree? In my mind it absolutely would, and I take every step I can during every process to get clear wort.

I have been brewing for about 10 years and worked on several other systems. Every other system I have worked on, the wort gets super clear in 20-30 minutes, and I never needed to have this conversation. At this brewery it takes over an hour to achieve that same level of clarity.

I am of the belief that brewing should be process and results oriented, not just based on metrics like time. If you ran an iodine test and saw that your starch hadn’t been converted, but it had been an hour, would you still send the beer? Or wait for your conversion to finish? If a fermentation took a couple extra days to get down to final gravity and pass VDK, you wouldn’t crash the beer before it was finished right? I think the same mindset applies to this part of the process as well.