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got a fair amount in my beer, what can I do to get rid of it?

It's really putting me off drinking it. It's like orange juice with bits :sick:

Bought my self a little mini strainer and that didn't work, thinking of adding a filter from a coffee machine to see if that removes it.

I don't have a temp fridge so I can't cold crash in the future. Maybe a conical and getting some c02 and kegs might be the answer. I did see a nice trick on YouTube but my beer is already in bottle and I don't have any gas yet.
 
First give the yeast time to settle to the bottom. Then pour the whole bottle carefully, and leave the last cm in the bottle. If you pour in a place with plenty of light you can see the sediment at the bottom and stop pouring before it leaves the bottle.
 
I will give it ago tonight. Sediment isn't at the bottom on most of the first batch. Maybe it's because of how I stored them or because it's in plastic bottles. Some it stuck to the sides.

Hopefully the wheat beer is different as its in glass bottles.
 
standing bottles upright to drop the sediment is very helpful, but there is an art to pouring a live beer, especially from 2l pet bottles..

you can minimise sediment but not eradicate it unless you go the keg/pegas tap or counter pressure bottle filler route.

to minimise you can rack off the bulk of the sediment in the bucket into a 2ndary bucket to clear and even add a finnings product to aid the clarity and sediment removal before bottling.

forget filtering -- trust me ;)

the best cure for a cloudy beer is an opaque drinking mug ;)
 
I would advise sincerely against drinking over much cloudy beer. Brewers yeast contain a lot of purines which are the principal cause of gout, a particularly painful form of arthritis.

Purines are the product of anaerobic respiration, so not much surprise on the outcomes.
 
I think there should be a saying in a the lines off - if you don't fart then it's not homebrew. But sadly some German/Dutch lager just bloat me up like no tomorrow, so it would not work :)
 
Are you racking to a bottling bucket? This REALLY helps

Rack it, then leave it for thirty mins to settle out any small amount of sediment transferred over then bottle.

Doing this I only ever have about 0.5mm-1mm of yeast and no sediment in the bottom of my bottles. Gone are the days of the last one or two bottle being quite literally 50% full of sediment
 
Can I ask a related question?

As well as a fair bit of sediment, my bottles also have some unpleasant-looking floaters. Is that anything to worry about? Will they settle out, given time?

I'm really paranoid because it's my first attempt. I was quite obsessive with the sanitisation, so if it's somehow managed to get infected I will not be impressed!
 
MyQul said:
Are you racking to a bottling bucket? This REALLY helps

Rack it, then leave it for thirty mins to settle out any small amount of sediment transferred over then bottle.

Doing this I only ever have about 0.5mm-1mm of yeast and no sediment in the bottom of my bottles. Gone are the days of the last one or two bottle being quite literally 50% full of sediment
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Is that when you'd add finings? Is it worth doing and does it affect the beer in anyway?
 

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