filtering beer

[Bovril]

The big companies do it....but I've always relied upon time and gravity.....however is there a filtration system for the home brewer?

bovril

[john luc]

you can get filter kits but there is always a trade off between removing yeast sediment and removing good stuff like hop aroma.

[Jocky]

The big companies do it....but I've always relied upon time and gravity.....however is there a filtration system for the home brewer?

bovril

What are you trying to filter out? Yeast? Haze?

Yeast drops pretty quickly on its own with cold. Haze can be taken care of with the right finings.

The main reason breweries will filter (or more likely these days they will centrifuge) is to speed up their production pipeline. A few extra days for the homebrewer is usually a much less troublesome solution.

[Bovril]

The big companies do it....but I've always relied upon time and gravity.....however is there a filtration system for the home brewer?

bovril

What are you trying to filter out? Yeast? Haze?

Yeast drops pretty quickly on its own with cold. Haze can be taken care of with the right finings.

The main reason breweries will filter (or more likely these days they will centrifuge) is to speed up their production pipeline. A few extra days for the homebrewer is usually a much less troublesome solution.

I've never used finings, I use irish moss, but that is it.

Ideally what I am looking for is to be able to bottle a beer without having any sediment in the bottom

[Matt in Birdham]

I like bright beer myself, but have never felt the need to filter. Fine with gelatin (or isinglass, if you're feeling flash), and then - if you really need to - you can get rid of any chill haze by crash-chilling and adding Polyclar. The beer will go into the bottle clear, and without sediment, but if you bottle condition then you will inevitably end up with a layer of yeast sediment as this is produced during the conditioning process - there is really no way around this (well - apart from force-carbing and bottling I suppose).

[john luc]

There are many video's on youtube showing how to. Here is one which is better than most because he shows how to purge the filter with co2 first.He is using a 1 micron filter but if you like your hoppy beers than 5 micron would be best. Also cold filter which he does not appear to do is also better. The filters are not cheap and while you can wash some of them you don't get too many runs with them unless you like Belgium sours of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lNRBDgkBEQ