If you keep the bottles upright, the yeast sinks to the bottom, and if you pour carefully, none of it ends up in your glass. So, nice clear pint, and no gout! (I believe there was a thread a while back pointing out drinking too much crud from your bottles can cause it, and is very painful). If bottles are laid on their side, yeast etc will fall to the lowest point. As you bring your bottles to the vertical to open, it will slide down the bottle, mixing with your beer as it does so. Cloudy beer, gout!
:P and how much of that beer would you have to drink to get gout? you've got me all worried now lol! What about cloudy beer styles? Surely gout is not just caused by that? My neighbour had/has gout and well, he always drinks shop bought beer (I don't even know if he drank much). Also, does it even happen to women?
I did wonder as well whether it would make sense to filter beer with a tea filter or coffee filter or would that take too much "goodness" out of it and prevent proper conditioning?
i knew it had or could have to do with beer and alcohol as my neighbour was told not to drink any beer (at least while he had a phase of gout, which I think he had about twice a year or so).)traditionally we used to have these clay steins in Germany
Due to lack of space in the fridge I put 4 bottles in on their side yesterday. I tipped them gently to try not to disturb the yeast. I drank them today and looked at clarity before opening and all looked good. I poured one and thought I would keep going until I saw yeast coming out but poured it all without any yeast coming out. The yeast is stuck to the bottom like glue so I'm well pleased. 4 bottles today and not a drop wasted. Slightly thin tasting stout that's been maturing for about 8 weeks. It has a nice head that disappeared after about 1 minute. I'm going to start another Coopers stout on Friday but will look up on adding grain and something to give it more body.
