My fiance and I are brewing beer for our wedding coming up in a couple months.
As a practitioner of "dirty kegging" (whether voluntary or not) I am at a sort of a crossroads. I have yet to successfully produce a sediment-free keg, wheter after a secondary, I've tried cold crash and transfer, etc etc. I'm sure I could get it with time, but time is not on my side any longer.
So I think I'm going to filter these so that when the kegs get moved, the beer doesn't kick up all kinds of crud. I'm going to order some of the 10" polyspun filters that go into a household housing.
I just need the beer to be scrubbed enough that I can transfer it to the other side of town. I will cold crash the beer first, and try to pour off the first cruddy pint before filtering (trust me I will still get more treasures).
I can imagine several scenarios, and don't know which will be the best for my situation, so other filter-users please chime in!
1) single 5 micron just to get the large offending crap.
2) single 1 micron to get it nice and clear (but prone to clog?)
3) dual-stage where it goes through a 5 then a 1
I can see myself using this for homebrew events and parties in the future, but not for my home-bound kegs.
As a practitioner of "dirty kegging" (whether voluntary or not) I am at a sort of a crossroads. I have yet to successfully produce a sediment-free keg, wheter after a secondary, I've tried cold crash and transfer, etc etc. I'm sure I could get it with time, but time is not on my side any longer.
So I think I'm going to filter these so that when the kegs get moved, the beer doesn't kick up all kinds of crud. I'm going to order some of the 10" polyspun filters that go into a household housing.
I just need the beer to be scrubbed enough that I can transfer it to the other side of town. I will cold crash the beer first, and try to pour off the first cruddy pint before filtering (trust me I will still get more treasures).
I can imagine several scenarios, and don't know which will be the best for my situation, so other filter-users please chime in!
1) single 5 micron just to get the large offending crap.
2) single 1 micron to get it nice and clear (but prone to clog?)
3) dual-stage where it goes through a 5 then a 1
I can see myself using this for homebrew events and parties in the future, but not for my home-bound kegs.