Okay so I just added peaches into my secondary of my wheat brew to give it a peach flavor. I was wondering what was the best/most efficient way to filter the beer since there will be a lot of pulp and chunks of peach that I do not want in my brew when I bottle. ideas?
Give it time, and they'll likely either sink out or float to the top. When you rack to a bottling bucket, be careful to pull the beer from over/under the fruit. You'll lose some this way, but them's kind of the breaks.
You can try sanitizing some panty hose and placing it over the pick-up side of your siphon. You won't filter out everything but you will keep out the big stuff
I use a fine mesh pasta strainer (sanitized). You may have to dump it out mid-rack, but it works pretty well.
Too late now, but when I do fruit i add it into a paint straining bag. Pull it out a few days before racking. Gotta get that crap out of there without plugging up the siphon.
Wouldn't this add a whole lot of oxygen to your beer? I can only imagine using a strainer would create all sorts of splashing
I should have clarified...I use the pasta strainer to filter the wort post boil, to get all the hoppy trub out. I don't filter when racking to secondary or in preparation for bottling.
Chill it and it will fall clear in time. I do a bunch of meads with fruit added and it mostly sinks to the bottom. Give it time and resist the urge to filter or strain, you are introducing more spots for infection. RDWHAHB.
