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Yabo72

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I just thought of this- Tonight I cold filtrated my all grain IPA with a 1 micron nominal disposable filter. Im not sure what nominal means other than its a throw away and cheap. (something like $2.99) I almost always keg but decided to bottle it for a party coming up. I use Coopers carb drops and dropped 1 in each bottle before filling. As soon as I finished the 2 cases I wondered that if by filtering it first into the bottling bucket , I might have removed all or enough of the yeast that there wont be enough left to eat the Coopers and release enough CO2 to carbonate the bottled beer. I'm I gonna have flat beer or do you think that enough yeast will remain after the 1 micron filter to still to do the job?
Thanks for any input!
 
nominal means some of the holes are 1 micron or smaller.

You need about .5 micron absolute to remove all of the yeast, so you have some, probably plenty.
 
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