Forgive me if this has already been covered, i am new to the forum.
I just brewed my second batch.
When I bottled my first batch, I was careful to not get any trub in the bottles, but when I opened the bottles after a few weeks, there was a layer on the bottom of each bottle. Is there a way to filter when filling bottles. Is filtering something that would effect the flavor of the beer? I appreciate your advice! Thanks!
Yes you can filter your brew. I use once a while a micron filter. Water system. But it will have a bit effect on taste of your brew. And color. Best way leave your beer stand bit longer in your carboy. And shyphon. Carefull. Make sure you dont get the last bit what sits at the bottom of you carboy. Into your bottles
Unless you bottle off a keg you will always have that sediment from the bottle conditioning. Bottling is just s mini fermentation so just like the main fermentation you will have dead yeast cells. Nothing you can do about it
No matter how careful you are, you will always have some sediment at the bottom of your bottles. There’s a lot of yeast in suspension, and over time, some will settle out. I have no experience with filtration, but from what I’ve read, some of these filters have such a small micron size that they will filter out the yeast. Once that happens, the only way to carbonate your beer is via force carbonation with CO2 in a keg. I agree with wilcolandzaat that you should let the beer stand longer in the carboy. No harm will be done to your beer leaving it on the trub for longer periods of time. Some brewers advocate moving the carboy and tilting it the night before siphoning because any movement agitates the trub. Although many of this forum are against racking the beer to a secondary carboy, I find that if I rack the beer from primary and siphon up almost all of the beer (it will be very cloudy at the end), whatever sediment I siphoned up quickly settles back to the bottom. I usually leave the beer in secondary for a good month. When I rack to the bottling bucket, I only have a thin and tightly packed layer of sediment (mostly yeast at this point) on the bottom that I can easily avoid. Since doing this, I have significantly less sediment in my bottles, and I have wasted very little beer. As always, make sure to avoid excess exposure to air when racking to avoid oxidizing your beer.
I have a bottle from the 80’s of schlits, it has a dent melted into it, never opened, and has a lot of yeast… Sneezles61
About six months ago, I started using Irish Moss (15 minutes before ‘flame out’). This helped remove most of the sediment.
When I’m bottling, it’s likely that I’ll get some extra trub in the last bottle (or two). Those bottles get a special marking on the bottle cap.
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback everyone!
Sence your new to brewing, I’m assuming you haven’t really invested a ton of $$$ into equipment. What I’m getting at is investing into Northern Brewers Big Mouth Bubbler with the psyphonless attachment. My brewing has changed completely. No more psyphons, making it way easier to either rack into secondary or racking into a bottling bucket. This helps me with clarity because there is less disturbance. Also, cold crash your beer one or two days prior to bottling. Drop the temp to 38F or so and all of the trub and floating organic matter with drop to the bottom of the Carboy… Assisting in clarity. Like others have said, unless you use a bottling gun attached to a keg and inline filter, bottlers are kinda limited to options regarding clarity. You can achieve it for sure, but like many other steps in making beer, there are a lot of little steps that when added together, make a good beer turn into a great beer. I recently began using a hop spider for my boil kettle to screen out a lot of the plant matter, I have attached a tubular screen to outlet on my boil kettle to GREATLY assist in filling my Carboy with clear wort from the start. Also, during your boil, use some type of Irish moss. Some even use gelatin in the Carboy to collect any matter and proteins in the wort, but be carful as you may also collect yeast… Forcing you to add more of it to your bottles for carbonation and conditioning. In the end, your still going to have a layer at the bottom of your beer bottle. Just don’t drink it! Hope this helps. Hit me up on a personal message if you want me to clarify any of the steps I mentioned in detail
