Is it possible to totally eliminate sediment in the bottle?
I have only brewed a few batches - all using 1 stage fermentation. I have recently purchased a 2nd glass carboy in the hopes of reducing or eliminating the sediment that I got from the first few batches. Will this 2nd stage eliminate or greatly reduce the sediment that Im getting?
I know that its not harmful but its hard to convince friends that they should drink a beer that I made with a bunch of gunk at the bottom
I have even read about 3rd stage - will that help further reduce sediment?
Eliminate sediment?
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Re: Eliminate sediment?
The sediment you are referring to is mostly from bottle conditioning your beer - that is, the last stage of fermentation that adds carbonation to your finished beer.HairNutz wrote:Is it possible to totally eliminate sediment in the bottle?
The only way to get rid of that is to force-carbonate your beer in a keg, filter it and fill bottles with already carbonated beer.
Not hard to do, but takes a bit more equipment than bottle conditioned beer.
See threads on this forum for force-carbonating and filtering your beer or on www.howtobrew.com.
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Some helpfull hints.
Hair,
You can minimise the sediment (trub and yeast) from the beer by re-racking it off the sediment cake. The trick is to clear the beer by cooling it down as low as you can get it. I live in Seattle (not cold in the winter but cool) so I brew during the Fall, Winter and Spring. Cooling the beer drops the sediment out of solution. I now use a 10 gallon Corni keg to ferment and rack to a 5 gallon for maturation. I used to perform this in a carboy covered with black plastic.
Charlie is right. If you bottle condition you will always have some sediment.
The best that you can do is use a yeast that has good compaction characteristics, cool and mature (cellar) the beer for a period of time.
I hope this helps.
Good brewing,
Tom F.
You can minimise the sediment (trub and yeast) from the beer by re-racking it off the sediment cake. The trick is to clear the beer by cooling it down as low as you can get it. I live in Seattle (not cold in the winter but cool) so I brew during the Fall, Winter and Spring. Cooling the beer drops the sediment out of solution. I now use a 10 gallon Corni keg to ferment and rack to a 5 gallon for maturation. I used to perform this in a carboy covered with black plastic.
Charlie is right. If you bottle condition you will always have some sediment.
The best that you can do is use a yeast that has good compaction characteristics, cool and mature (cellar) the beer for a period of time.
I hope this helps.
Good brewing,
Tom F.
Rack to a secondary and use corn sugar
Hi.
I'm relatively new to the brewing game but I've reduced the sediment to a degree by racking to a secondary fermenter and using corn sugar (as opposed to dme) as bottling sugar.
Hope this helps you. And heck, I've been successful in pouring the brew for homebrew skecptics (so they don't have to deal with the sediment...) Course, some folks just don't like a good 'brew.
Nathan
I'm relatively new to the brewing game but I've reduced the sediment to a degree by racking to a secondary fermenter and using corn sugar (as opposed to dme) as bottling sugar.
Hope this helps you. And heck, I've been successful in pouring the brew for homebrew skecptics (so they don't have to deal with the sediment...) Course, some folks just don't like a good 'brew.
Nathan