Filtration before bottling

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H-Man

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Would it be advisable to filter the brew into the bottling bucket just to ensure sediment is not apparent? I have some paint filters at 5 & 25 microns. Should I sanitize the filter?
 
Seems unnecessary to me. An autosiphon leaves 95% of the trub behind and the rest will compact with the yeast during conditioning.
 
Yeast sediment in bottles is also unavoidable. You need yeast to carb and condition your bottle, and yeast colonies reproduce and get bigger during the carb/conditioning process, so it's impossible to naturally carb in a bottle and not have sediment.

Sediment-free bottles, like commerical examples, are force carbed prior to bottling. If that's your goal, look into a kegging setup and a beer gun/counter pressure filler. That's the correct way to do it.
 
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