Sediment... To Drink or not to drink, that is my question

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BrewDan

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Hello everyone!

Not sure this is the correct section as I am not just talking about home brew, I'm also talking about store bought.

I have always poured the drink and tried to leave the sediment behind, but I have seen a few websites where people suggest mixing the sediment up and drinking it as it improves flavour... This seems to be what people have said about Belgian beers such as duvel.

I'm really wondering how does everyone drink theirs, do you leave the sediment in the bottle or do you drink the whole lot? Are there certain beers/lagers that you should/shouldn't drink the yeast with?

Someones probably asked this before but I couldn't find anything while searching, be interested to see what you all suggest..

Cheers :cheers:
 
I used to buy Worthington White Shield, let it stand, carefully pour off the beer and drink it, and use the yeast to start my homebrew. I don't like cloudy, yeasty beer, but I suspect that the correct answer is to do as you please.

Richard
 
personally i try to pour off the beer without disturbing too much sediment i find it gives the beer a tang it wont hurt you just personal preference
 
Those were quick replies!! Thanks for that. Well I think I will give a cloudy duvel a go
 
My late Dad told a story of when he worked in Liverpool docks before the war. An old boy used to come into a dockside pub every Friday, order 4 bottles of white shield and 5 glasses. He would pour out the beers then the sediment into the fifth glass. He give away the beer and only drink the sediment. He suffered from chronic constipation and the sediment was the only thing that would clear him out once a week.
 
I believe with some wheat beers its the done thing to pour it all into the glass. But for British-style beers and lagers clarity is usually seen as more desirable, within reason - sucking the life out of it with excessive filters and wotnot is to me perhaps is overdoing things.

Personally I'm fairly familiar with yeasty beer (patience is a virtue i don't always manage!) and I don't mind at all as long as it doesn't actually taste too yeasty, but some people do seem a bit sensitive (in a dubious-stomach type of way..) to too much yeast.

Cheers
kev
 
The fashion for 'clear beer' only started with the production of beer glasses. When everyone drank out of earthenware or pewter tankards, clarity wasn't an issue - and of course it isn't with porters or stouts either. Saying that, it's all down to personal preference, and it will do you no harm whatsoever (although some people are sensitive and may suffer from pan-freckling').

In some Belgian bars in the Brussels area, you can ask for a tot of excess yeast to be served in a 'shot glass' - and some will mix it with their beer whilst others will neck the slurry as is 'down in one'. It's not much different to those probiotic yogurt thingys that the gullible pay a fortune for.

Yeast will most definitely change the taste of the beer - sometimes for the better but not always so. Why not try it both ways - pour half clear and drink it, then pour the other half after giving the bottle a swirl. Or even use two glasses so you can make a direct comparison. That's what I do with many of the Trappist beers.
 

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