Filtering

Anyone know of a way to filter my beer before keegging or bottling without using an expensive system? Like maybe coffee filters or teabags.

Reply to
BKBooth
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why do you want to filter it? if you get all the yeast etc before bottling it won't carbonate in the bottle

Reply to
dechucka

I like to keg and force carbonate the majority of my beer. I sometimes bottle a little to save for later.

Reply to
BKBooth

as I said, if you bottle any of a brew without yeast in it it won't carbonate

Reply to
dechucka

I've tried several methods of filtering without much success. Clogging remains the major problem. I read somewhere on the net you can use copper "chore boy" scrubbing pads, but this has not been verified. If you rack it a couple of times before bottling it might help, but it might also reduce the yeast content to the point where flatness becomes a problem after bottling. Personally I just ferment about ten days using two packs of dried yeast per

5gal, rack once while adding corn sugar, top it off to five gallons with water and bottle. For most of the bottles, the gunk just settles on the bottle bottom. A few of them have little floating yeast chunks which I just dip out of the glass while consuming. If, after bottling, no sediment forms, the beer will be flat and nasty. Sediment is good. Forced carbonation is another matter entirely; one which I have little experience.

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than have to have a frontal lobotomy"

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Dr._Flouride

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