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home brewing beer filtration tips?

fort asked:


Anyone have any good tips on how to filter home brewed beer? I just made some, and normally I filter the beer through a coffee filter. Does anyone have any better ideas?

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4 Responses to “home brewing beer filtration tips?”

  1. dogglebe on March 23rd, 2009 6:03 am

    Pouring a fermented beer through a coffee filter will oxidize your batch, leaving it tasting like cardboard.

    For clearer beer, you can use irish moss in the last fifteen minutes of your boil. Or you can crash-chill your batch. This involves chilling the batch down to almost freezing.

  2. mamabear84 on March 25th, 2009 4:20 am

    try some clarity moss.

  3. Ben B on March 28th, 2009 1:38 am

    Use a yeast with a higher floculation. After fermenting, get the beer really cold. This will help any sediment still suspended to sink.

    Try it unfiltered, add some of the yeast to your glass for a more nutty flavor. Beer started in this world unfiltered.

  4. Trid on March 30th, 2009 11:32 am

    Don’t.
    The longer you let it sit in the secondary fermentor, the clearer it will get. Besides, it doesn’t have to be crystal clear to be good. If you absolutely need clear beer, you can add bentonite as a clarifier after fermentation. It should do the trick, but is VERY easily stirred up when you go to rack or move your fermentor, etc.