Floaties, Like or Dislike!?

Total turn-off for me.

 

I'm not a fan of floaties either. That beer is 3 months old (August 4th canning date) and with that kind of age on an unfiltered IPA it is not that surprising to me.

I'll usually pour 1/2 into the glass then swirl the rest in the can for a few seconds before topping off the glass with an IPA that old.

Floaties in a fresh IPA (Floatcal Banger) is a turnoff for sure. No wonder they say "Drink From The Can."

 

Not all cask beer is treated with finings, Burton ales were traditionally unfined. It is still common to see signs in pubs denoting "Fine Ales and Stouts" , not as many believe a claim of quality but to denote that the beers were fined.
I homebrewed for many years and never fined anything. If I had done things right my beers would be clear within a few days and brilliant a few days later. I used 40 Imperial pint plastic kegs, not bottles to keep it in.I did use a "dropping" system in which the beer was transferred into gallon jars with airlocks after the vigorous fermentation period.

 

I remember thinking that if I want that sort of flavour it is cheaper to buy grapefruit juice at the supermarket. I like hops to taste of hops

 

Funny you should ask...

Currently drinking a Focal Banger...

The real reason behind, "Drink from the can!" lol

Gotta say though, I ain't got no problem with Alchemist floaties...

But I guess you could say it depends on the beer. I've had some experiences where I wasn't expecting them and it annoyed me to have a big sediment dump in my beer, and I've had some occasions where they looked unappealing and I found it off-putting. However - lol - I don't think I've ever stopped drinking a beer because of them....

Cheers...

 

It would be interesting to know to what extent not fining cask beer corresponds with not filtering the beer. I could see there being some beers which neither filter nor fine, but I'd imagine that using either or would be the most common, though I would be very much interested in learning that it was more common to neither fine nor filter.

I assume that you were tapping the beer via a spout via gravity? The dropping system sounds like a shortened/warmer lagering process by which yeast and sediment is allowed to settle prior to transferral to a secondary vessel, which would obviously help with clarity.

 

The beer keg was pressurised by priming with about 3 ounces of sugar and then sealed.A bit like a big bottle.
Yes, many breweries employed a "dropping" system after the initial vigorous fermentation period.
Cask beer is never filtered, it is unnecessary and would be an additional expense .In any case live yeast is essential to condition the beer once it has been tapped.

 

I don't mind floaties , but I'd hate to see it snowing in my beer, not to that degree. I had a Two Hearted Ale at a bar once, obviously this isn't a floaties kinda beer, and there was a huge glob of white crap in my bottle, looked like someone spunked into it. Nasty as hell, they replaced it of course, but I've never seen yet before. But overall unfiltered bottle conditions beers I welcome it a bit.

 

So storage in a secondary vessel for some time, unfined and unfiltered and then transferal to serving casks (and primed?) and served clear. That's interesting.

 

Since Trillium started canning the floaties in their beer have reached apocalyptic levels. Kind of turned me off to buying cans there.

 

Do you get Cloudwater? I had some in Dublin. Their IPAs fit the NEIPA style pretty well.

 

Huh. funny topic cos I was just looking at a few in the beer I tapped today that had a pretty decent kcuf-ton of mosaic in its dry hop addition, and it was far less than the images of the Alchemist pours. So. Phew...

 

I'd take floaters in my beers instead of my eyes any day. Man those bastards are annoying, and never going away...

 

Floaties are a sign of a lazy brewer/cellarman.

 

I'm sure once @NeroFiddled gets a little more experience with beer he will find this is true.

 

Haven't really come across a beer with "floaties", unless it's gone bad (over-fermented and what not), but I love cloudy beers, and haze is totally acceptable IMO.

Generally if I see an American IPA without haze it usually turns out to be lacking hop flavour, so for me cloudy/hazy beers come with the territory.

I'm intrigued to see what people on BA classify as "floaties" though...

 

See post #45

 

Hmmm, I guess I am a little more forgiving of appearance. I like beers hazy/cloudy,/turbid/murky/with floaties when they taste good. And, relatedly, I don't like clear beers when they don't taste good. YMMV.

 

I drink kombucha, so floaties don't bother me at all. That being said, I don't want any "oysters" in my beer.

 

I've never had that from a Focal. Did you do a careful decanted pour or just pour it all in?

When I do decanted pours the last swig from the can is always noticeably worse than the beer from the glass. Why people want that mixed in doesn't really make sense to me.