Does Anyone Filter Their Beer?

Interesting question.

I've never filtered. I've looked into it years ago but never tried it.

 

this might not be the filtering you're talking about. I recently began to take filtering my cooled wort more seriously. Basically I want to experiment with removing more truck from wort. I do brew in a bag, and that bag to begin with is 250 micron. I've upgraded to a 75 micron bag, which does significantly better but leaves a lot of trub. Not to mention, that bag drains significantly more slowly. I then tried a 12-volt powered food safe pump to filter through an inline 40 micron filter and 200 micron filter. However, both of these, due to their much lower surface area than the bags, got quickly clogged, and the silicon line was cavitating. So basically I've given up on filtering using that method for now. It just seems like the trub is actually really really small, and to filter a properly you need the right equipment. And that runs a cost. I just haven't gotten there yet. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be.

Interested to hear other experiences.

 

I use the BouncerMD (check Amazon). It’s a Stainless steel filter with 1/2npt connections and then order the more fine filters (blue and white) to filter better. It says the temperature use of only up to 150F though.

I use it on all beers going into the fermenter and into the keg. Especially useful for really clean beers (lagers).

 

The yeast cells and free polyphenols/proteins in beer are all too small to be filtered by even the finest (white, 178 micron) filter available for the BouncerMD, which is really for removing trub/hop particles.

 

I put the filter in between the fermenter and keg usually with biofine in the filter reservoir and purge CO2 from the empty keg then tighten the cup once the beer line seems purged. Push CO2 to move the beer into the keg with some filtration.

As VikeMan says it filters out medium/larger material but not everything. I think you would have to stop the process a couple of times if you filtered that finely, but maybe your beer is cleaner out of the fermenter than mine. Kudos to those people. Once the keg is chilled a few days, the first pull or two should remove the yeast. Idk, but I’ve had compliments for how clean my ipas turn out.

 

I'm guessing you don't get that chemical taste in your friends beers. Sounds like your friend might be using a different style, or brand, or a "new and improved" pad. Are you averse to trying his method?
Inquiring minds want to know.......

 

No. I like it all and only filter via liver and kidneys.

 

I tried the BouncerMD for a couple batches and didn't like using them. If someone wants them I'd be happy to get them out of the brew closet and send them if they just pay shipping.

 

I'm a really big fan of keller/zweickel lagers, so this thread is just good stuff to know, but I probably wouldn't put into practice.

 

Hi all! Does anyone use carbonation?

 

I carbonate all my beers.

 

Have you thought about using the pre-cleaning water for the filters as water for cleaning the rest of your equipment? I know that between cleaning and rinsing brew day equipment and fermenters its at least 20 gallons for me. Those orange buckets from home depot are pretty cheap.

 

I have been thinking of filtering a batch. When I did it last time I pushed the beer with C02 through a 10" water filter cartridge, it was a pleated filter the beer was much better filtered. I also used that water housing as a hop back.