AdamCanFly
Well-Known Member
So I'm on my third batch of beer and having a great time with my new hobby. An old hobby of mine was aquariums. So the aquarist in me wants to filter the beer. It seems like many of the commercial beers I drink have been filtered. The batch that I am working on now is a berry wheat. It's in secondary fermentation with the fruit and I think it's coming along nicely. I pulled a sample to take a hydrometer reading and it has a medium cloudiness to it. I'm thinking about running it through a filter when I bottle it. I just don't know how fine of a filter to use. I think I've read somewhere that its not ok to use carbon? What about a micron filter? You can get them anywhere from 1 micron up to about 300 microns. Then theres just regular old filter pads. Can anyone help me figure out what kind of filtration to use? Also, what are some of the pros and cons of filtering? Does anyone haver any personal experience with it?