Questions tagged [filtering]
Passing liquid through a device(the filter) to remove unwanted material.
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Hopback filter mesh size (microns)
I am building a Hopback (sort of DIY). Found this on the interwebz:
Wondering if 40 micron (approx. 350 mesh) which comes with this filter is not too fine of a filter for a hopback?
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Making wine with fruits?
What differences should i expect when making wine with fresh mushed fruits and water instead of juice?
I have only tried making wine with juice before.
Will i need to filter it when racking?
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What is the best wine filtering system?
As a hobbyist who produces at least 5 gallons a week of wine, what filtering system do you recommend? I am also looking at transfer pumps as well.
I am getting older and have torn rotator cuffs and ...
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If I filter beer, then slightly reintroduce sediment, will I still get lots of sediment in bottle conditioning?
I understand that if I filter my beer I will have a clear, sediment-free flat beer which will not carbonate with bottle conditioning.
If I reintroduce a tiny amount of the sediment back into the ...
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Can I over-filter my beer?
I'm going to dry hop my very first IPA (without a bag) and I've read that when bottling I will need to put some kind of filtering cloth on the end of the racking cane to prevent hops sediment from ...
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Filtering my batches (no dead fishes)
I have had a couple of cloudy batches recently, both tasted as intended, so no contamination. This has caused me to consider filtration, I have a 100l kit with a pump so could use plate filters or ...
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Is there a disadvantage to screening the flour out of my grain before mashing with BIAB?
I use the BIAB method. My keggle has a side drain valve with a pickup tube going to the bottom. After the boil, I get gobs of fine material coming through my counter-flow chiller into the fermenter. ...
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Kegging - Is it necessary to filter yeast?
I'm planning to buy kegging equipment and keg my next batch of beer, and I ran into some yeast filters for sale that remove yeast specifically for kegging. Is this a necessary step? I know that when I ...
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Water filter usage in homebrewing
I'm considering using a water filter just prior to bottling in order to filter very small particles. But would that also filter the yeast and prevent fermentation in the bottle? What micra in what ...
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How can I filter out a large amount of loose sediment from my primary?
My current brew is a hard ginger beer, calling for a pound of grated ginger in my 3 gallon primary. Fermentation is slowing and unfortunately a lot of that ginger remains unsettled--the bottom 3" of ...
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False bottom not working effectively
I've upgraded from a 20L homebrew system to a 200L system and used it for the first time the other day. I previously did boil-in-the-bag but for my new system I have a false bottom. For my first test ...
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How can I filter out excess cream (trub) before bottling?
I'm making a cream ale and just moved it into a new carboy for secondary fermentation. While siphoning it over, I noticed that there's a lot of solid creamy substance still in the beer. Maybe I did ...
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Difficulty siphoning through counterflow chiller
Just bought a counterflow chiller... tested it with boiling water and it worked fine. I also siphoned sanitizer through it, no problems there.
However when I tried to siphon the wort, it clogged ...
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Filtering recommendations (other than 'don't')?
For various reasons, including (a) lack of bench space, which equals ageing time; and mostly (b) an intermittent case of gout, which means that brewer's yeast is a serious no-no for me—I'm forced to ...
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Filtering Beer with Coffee Filter
I want to know if anybody has tried filtering beer with coffee filters?
I'm tempted to play with this idea at a later date. I would be concerned about aerating the beer too much, so again has anyone ...
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Does filtering yeast change the color of a beer?
To what extent would filtering out yeast change the color in a beer?
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sediment in wine bottle, how to serve
I made some wine recently, and I screwed up slightly. I degassed the wine the day I was going to bottle. I let it sit a couple hours expecting the sediment to settle after I "blended" the wine, ...
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Filtering BIAB wort
I have recently started BIAB, and my wort is very cloudy after the boil. Much "cloud material" ends up in the fermentor, since it takes really long to settle and is easily stirred. It mostly looks ...
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Filtering using a keg and a carboy instead of two kegs
I've read that filtering requires two kegs. I've only got one corny keg but I'd like to filter my brew with a canister or plate filter. Do I risk overly oxidizing the beer if I were to filter from a ...
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What is the benefit to filtering beer?
I'm not a home-brewer, but this seems like a good place to ask the question.
why are many commercial beers filtered?
I prefer unfiltered beer and I am just curious to know why they filter it in the ...
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How can I clear-up a cloudy cider?
I've finished my second batch of homemade cider and I'm a little disappointed to find that it is so cloudy. There are no off flavors, I actually am enjoying it, but it's cloudy. It's not just hazy. ...
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Stainless Steel Scrubber in Boil Screen to strain hops?
So I have a 6" boil screen in my kettle attached to my ball valve.
Now this doesn't strain that much hops out because of the larger holes in the screen so when I transfer it to my carboy I run it ...
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Brew kettle ball valve straining
I have a 10 gallon brew kettle with a ball valve. I have used it a couple times, and now own a counter-flow chiller. I noticed that all of the hot-break at the bottom of my kettle really seems to gunk ...
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How to sanitize a 10" cylindrical beer filter?
Do you soak it in sanitizer? Boil it? Do nothing?
I saw one on Amazon last week for like $30 and I figured what the heck, pick it up and I'll try it out, but now I'm not sure how I'd go about doing ...
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How best to clarify when wheat beer yeast used
I innocently/stupidly used a pack of wheat beer yeast (Safbrew WB-06) when making a high hopped light beer (100g Liberty, 100g Cascade, 2.2 lbs of spraymalt and 500g of brewing sugar made up to 20 ...
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How can I put minerals back into distilled or reverse osmosis water?
The tap water where I live is filled with chlorine, flouride, some pretty bad elements such as arsenic, chromium, barium, etc. So I would like to purify my water with either reverse osmosis or ...
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Can I use a filtering kit with sanke kegs?
I just built a d-coupler kegerator, and picked up a few pony sanke kegs from a friend. I've been looking to start filtering some of my homebrew, but all the kits I see online require soda kegs. Is ...
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What's the best way to rack beer off of fruit?
I recently brewed a 5.5 gallon batch of witbier. After primary, I bottled 3 gallons of it and racked the other 2.5 gallons into a 3 gallon carboy atop 24 ounces of raspberries.
After the secondary ...
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How to efficiently use active carbon?
I have recently become interested in building my own home-brew water filtration unit; during my online research on the subject, I came across active carbon (aka activated charcoal). It seems like it ...
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Dry Hop Filtering and bottling
This is my first attempt at dry hopping. I added hop pellets directly into the secondary fermenter. They have been in for 1 week and many have settled to the bottom, however there is quite a bit ...
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Will there still be yeast leftover for second fermentation after filtration?
I want to filter my beer then put it in the bottles for the second fermentation (aka making the beer fizz). I am worried that I will get rid of all the yeast and end up with flat beer.
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Filter out Hops after Boil
After the boil I have been told to run the wort through a filter before adding yeast and letting it ferment. It seems like you would get more flavor leaving the hop leftovers in.
What is the ...
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How do you filter at home?
I thought I'd ask this after reading Brewchez's effects of filtering question.
I personally don't filter at home, for the most part. I generally make dark beer, and people who drink my beer ...
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Does filtering beer strip flavor, aroma and/or color?
In the quest for super clear beer (and increase shelf stability) some brewers like to filter their beer.
What impact does it have on flavor, aroma and color?
Which aspects of flavor (hops only, malt ...
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