Drink bud....otherwise get used to it.
It's a fact of life when you make living beers. Unless you keg or force carb there needs to be living yeast in your beer to carb and conditiion.
Rather than try to avoid it you should relish in the fact that you have made REAL LIVING BEER as opposed to tasteless and processed commercial crap...It's not to be dreaded it's to be celebrated.
Learn to pour homebrew properly and get over it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyXn4UBjQkE
The Belgians practically worship it, for all it's healthful benefits...
Think of carbing/conditioning as another (but tiny) fermentation, in a small (12, 16, or 22 ounce) carboy. The yeast converts the sugar (priming solution) to a miniscule amount of alcohol (not really enough to change the abv of the beer) and CO2...The CO2 builds up in the headspace, is trapped and is reabsorbed in the solution...
Most of the time we don't notice this, (except for new brewers who stare at their bottles then start a "wtf" thread) but depending on the yeast, a mini krauzen forms on top of the bottle, then it falls, like in your fermenter and that becomes the "sludge" at the bottom of the bottles. As it falls it also scrubs the beer clean of many off flavors on the way down.
This is very similar to the trub at the bottom of your fermenter, only obvioulsy much much smaller.
Now some yeast are more flocculant then others, also depending on some brewing things one may do, some beers have very little noticeable yeast at the bottom, either because it just din't form that much OR it wasn't very flocculant and it is still in solution.
A long primary helps tighten the cake in primary, as does crash cooling...Racking to a secondary, adding finings and crash cooling all affect how much yeast is in suspension in the beer to help carb it...Also the type of yeast will change the amount of apparant yeast in the bottom, or in solution...
Also chilling the bottles down for at least a week after the 3 weeks @ 70 will help make the beer clearer and pull the yeast down to the bottom.
When I bottle I always run the autosiphon once across the bottom of the fermenter to make sure I DO kick up enough yeast for carbonation.
A lot of my beers have very little yeast at the bottom of the bottle, some appear to not have any at all, even though they seem to carb up fine.
also remember SOME beers, like Hefes are supposed to be cloudy with suspended yeasts.
For me personally, sometimes I intentionally dump the yeast in my glass, other times I do the "pour to the shoulder" method, where you watch the yeast mover up to the shoulder of the beer, and stop pouring just as the yeast is about to come out...
Now as opposed to the OP that thinks filtered dead beers are better than real beers, here's a pretty comrehensive list of all the commercial beers that are bottle conditioned...it's not too up to date though...but it is impressive...this is what a lot of us who ACTUALLY BOTTLE HARVEST THE GLORIOUS YEASTS from beers to capture the strains, use as a rough reference...
Yeasts from Bottle Conditioned Beers
Now if you look at this list, and then compare it to the "clear beers" (meaning BMC) you will quickly see that the kind of beer the OP is referring to is actually in the minority..
Yeastie Boyz
A one act play by Revvy
Cast
HB) = Homebrewer
G) = Guest.
Scene, a living room, G and HB are hanging out watching the game.
HB) Hey you wanna try one of my beers?
G) Sure
HB grabs bottle, glass and bottle opener. Proceeds to open and pour beer properly.
HB) I dunno if you know this, but as opposed to BMC's this beer and most micro brews are alive?
G)Huh? Wha?
HB) They're still alive. See the macroswill makers pretty much kill their beers so they last on the shelf. They pasturize them and filter out the yeast, and to me, most of the flavor...that's why I like to brew, and like to go to brewpubs and stuff.
But these beers, and ones like Rogue, and Bell's don't filter, in fact the yeast is still in the bottle and that's how the beer gets carbonated.
B) Really?
HB holds up bottle to the light, showing the dregs.
HB) Yeah, see this stuff at the bottom? That's the yeast....notice how clear your beer is? If I had poured it in you beer it would have been cloudy, but I poured the beer til this stuff got to the shoulder of the bottle, leaving it behind.
HB knocks back the yeast dregs.
Actually the stuffs really good for you it's full of vitamin b and stuff. Sometimes I don't bother leaving it behind and just dump it in the bottle. And some beers like Wheats are meant to be cloudy with suspended yeast. There's different types of beer yeasts, and they give beers different tastes. Some yeast give the beer the flavor of Banana, or cloves.
Or like this beer here the yeast gives it this quality (Hb describes the yeast in the beer guest is drinking.) Can you taste it?
Some of us homebrewers actually capture the yeast from some of the beers, and grow our own cultures with them. Some are really awesome and hard to get.
G)Wow, I didn't know you knew so much about this stuff...cool.
HB) Thanks, didja know that the yeasts are so important to the Belgian brewers that guard their yeast like it was fort knox? Some of them take it so seriously that they actually filter out the strain they fermented with, and then replace it with a different one to bottle carb and condition them? They actually take out one strain (like the BMC'ers do) BUT they still add yeast at bottling time...it's that important to them.
G) What?
HB) Yeah and brewers and even some homebrewers who go to Belgian, actually try to steal samples of the yeast.
G) No ****?
HB) Yeah it's pretty wild, huh? Hey you wanna try another of my beers, maybe a wheat or a belgian that has a really yeasty character?
G) Yeah sure.
HB hands G a bottle, class and bottle openner
HB)Ok dude, I showed you how to pour to the shoulder of the bottle, so why don't you give it a try?
G) Cool! So will you teach me how to brew sometime?
HB) Yeah, I'm brewing this weekend, come on by Sat. Morning.
Smiles knowing he's converted another one to the 'darkside.'
G) SO can I make a beer like bud lite?
HB smacks G over the head with beer bottle
The End
(Just kidding about the last part)
Polishing your beers means removing yeast too (for me).
To do selective filtering requires a filter media of around 7 microns to keep the yeast and any other sediment in the same range behind (not removed).
What I wasn't doing was cold crashing. Makes a huge difference. My procedure now looks something like:
