Settling trub in finished product

Northern Brewer General
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made grapefruit pulp-in from Northern brewer, the flavor is great but I had a messy time of bottling. my question is, how do you seasoned brewers take care of all of the trub that I have in the bottles with out getting the beer exposed to outside oxygen and bacteria?
thank you

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Welcome to the forums! What do you ferment in? A bucket or a carboy? When I used to bottle, I would gently rack the beer to a bucket with a spigot on the bottom and bottle from there. I would leave most of the trub behind in the carboy. Also, once you chill them and let them settle if you got trub in the bottles, it should settle to the bottom. Be sure to pour gently and you can leave most of it behind.

:beers:
Rad

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I ferment in a bucket and up until this batch have been happy. But will definitely use my carboy next batch that has the later addition of hops. leaving that trub in the carboy.
appreciate the feed back thank you

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Welcome here!
Cold crashing is another solution… but with buckets and carboys, is a bit more fickle. I wonder if brulosophy has tackled this.
Sneezles

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well I agree and have used both methods with success. I will say my preferred method does not involve the bottle bucket. I never cared for that technique because of the chance at oxidation.and stirring up the trub. Now what I do is a good cold crash then use the auto siphon with a spring loaded bottle wand. Tips: set the fermenter higher than the bottles, Start the siphon with stars and don’t drain it , then restart the siphon in the beer carefully not to stir up the trub. The first bit run into a jar and discard. After the star San is out of the tube start filling the bottles. Lower your siphon and gently tip the bucket as you go. The last few bottles will probably get more trub in them. Mark these as your test bottles. If you gently pour them they will be drinkable. The rest will be pretty clean.

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A seasoned home brewers way right there… ( :
Sneezles

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seasoned sounds better than old :joy:

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That’d be demeaning… I don’t feel old either… (:
Sneezles61

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thank you appreciate all of the info.