Filtration

[Motabika]

I have just brewed a awesome tasting Zythos Pale Ale, I cold crashed and used gelatine but each bottle still seems to have a heap of yeast in it, basically what I am looking for is a cheap way of filtering my beer.

 

[wereprawn]

Filling bottles from the keg?

 

[Motabika]

No I don't keg yet, filling bottles from my bottling bucket

 

[MastersBrewery]

Cold crash Method? If I cc with gelatine the beer is chrystal, though 2 caveats.

1.I use whirfloc in the kettle. (some use Brewbright that also helps with chill haze)
2.when doing this I rack after it hits FG, (establish FG 3 days same reading) set temp to 2c, two days later Gel, five days later keg/bottle.

why buy a filter?

 

[Motabika]

Cold crash Method? If I cc with gelatine the beer is chrystal, though 2 caveats.

1.I use whirfloc in the kettle. (some use Brewbright that also helps with chill haze)
2.when doing this I rack after it hits FG, (establish FG 3 days same reading) set temp to 2c, two days later Gel, five days later keg/bottle.

why buy a filter?

Yep used cold crash method and gelatine in this but still too much yeast in the glass

 

[JDW81]

Yep used cold crash method and gelatine in this but still too much yeast in the glass

How hard do you pour?

I don't cold crash or fine and have bugger all yeast end up in the glass (unless it's a hefe).

Do you bottle from the primary or transfer to a bottling bucket? How long have you left it to condition?

JD

 

[wereprawn]

Could try putting your bottles in the fridge for a week or two. What type of yeast did you use? How long did you ferment for? Ag ?

 

[MastersBrewery]

Yep used cold crash method and gelatine in this but still too much yeast in the glass

yes but the question was what is your method. What temps, yeast, rack or still on primary, when do you gel, total time at crash, and do you then transfer to bottling bucket. When I bottle you'd be hard press usually to find any yeast at the bottom of the bottle.

 

[Motabika]

yes but the question was what is your method. What temps, yeast, rack or still on primary, when do you gel, total time at crash, and do you then transfer to bottling bucket. When I bottle you'd be hard press usually to find any yeast at the bottom of the bottle.

Cold crashed at 0 for two days with the gelatine, this is then racked to a bottling bucket and bottled, used wlp001

 

[MastersBrewery]

ok so 0 for two days isn't going to get you there ( your beer won't have dropped to even 2c) you want the beer cold when you add the Gelatine, also racking will help. Stainless fermenter also helps(but hell I've brewed for years without one). All up seems like you bottle 4 or 5 days early. try and see what works for you.

 

[Blind Dog]

If you bottle, you can't filter as it removes the yeast that you need to munch through the bottling sugar to provide the CO2 - unless you bottle carbonated beer from a keg which you've already said you don't have.

I rarely filter and find that kettle finings, maybe gelatine, but mainly time at cold temps post ferment, gets a clear beer.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

You will always have yeast in your bottle, as Blind Dog says if you haven't got yeast you will not have carbonation, your problem is your pour, hand a bottle of homebrew to a novice and he will tip the whole bottle into the glass, pour the beer gently and leave your sediment behind in the bottle, just the same as with commercial beers which have been bottle conditioned.

 

[jaywalkar]

I filtered a few batches in the past but stopped doing it because I gound that a lot of the hop flavour can be removed with filtering. I would rather have a slightly cloudy tasty beer than a clear, less tasty one.

It's great to have a cystal clear beer, but not worth sacrificing flavour in my opinion.