Beer filter

[tim24]

I'm going to get a beer filter I just need to know what Micron to get

 

[CoalCracker]

How cloudy is your beer after racking to another vessel? A cloudy beer you would want to start with a coarse. If you cold crash first. You might get away with a medium.

 

[TopherM]

What are you trying to accomplish? Do you bottle or keg?

 

[certaut]

What are you trying to accomplish? Do you bottle or keg?

Generally time will clear beer as good or better than a filter. also cold crashing does wonders.

 

[ClaudiusB]

I'm going to get a beer filter I just need to know what Micron to get

Not all filters are created equal.
What type of filter, plate or cartridge?
Micron rating for an absolute or nominal filter material?


Cheers,
ClaudiusB

 

[TopherM]

What are you trying to accomplish? Do you bottle or keg?

I ask because the filtering question is most asked on this forum by newer brewers trying to eliminate sediment in bottles. Of course, you can't naturally carbonate bottles without yeast sediment, so it's futile to filter it.

I get clear beer through whirlfloc tablets and letting kegs have a nice long cold conditioning period. MUCH easier and certainly much cheapers than filtering. If I want sediment-free bottled beer, especially for competitions, I borrow my buddy's beer gun.

 

[Buna_Bere]

I'd recommend the coarse plate filters, according to northern brewer they're 2-7 microns nominal. I've only used the coarse, and the beers came out commercial clear. I cold crash for 48 hours at 30F then filter cold. Here's a link to a pic of a coarse filtered beer that was fermented with kolsch yeast, which is a very powdery low flocculating yeast, and dry hopped with 4oz of pellets
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f85/new-post-picture-your-pint-285100/index36.html#post4013931

 

[tim24]

I'm using kegs I'm trying to filter it to get the cloud out. I have a cartridge filter

 

[tim24]

I have just been told buy a mate to use 1 miron but looking at the filter cartridge it looks like it would be hard to clean

 

[Yooper]

I have just been told buy a mate to use 1 miron but looking at the filter cartridge it looks like it would be hard to clean

I don't know of any reusable filters. The ones I know of are a one-time use only. You throw away the filter cartridge after using, and just keep the housing and set up.

 

[tim24]

I don't know of any reusable filters. The ones I know of are a one-time use only. You throw away the filter cartridge after using, and just keep the housing and set up.

Can you tell me how long you get out of them ?

 

[Yooper]

Can you tell me how long you get out of them ?

5 gallons, but if you're filtering a couple of kegs at the same time you could stretch it to maybe two kegs.