Filtering out Fruit Puree before bottling

[brandonbrummett]

Currently making a simple Raspberry and Blackberry braggot. I used 5 lb of extra light malt extract, added 5 lb of honey after flameout, and used some San Diego Superyeast. I let it ferment in primary for a month then racked to secondary and added 2 lb of Vintner's Harvest raspberry puree, and 2 lb of Vintner's Harvest blackberry puree.

A local brewey recommended I try to filter out the puree pulp before bottling by using cheesecloth, panty hose, or a pillowcase (all properly sanitized of course).

Any recommendations from folks on here about how to filter it?

 

[MrFancyPlants]

I've made hootch out of juice with puree and the puree clumped together pretty well at the bottom and top of the bottle. I would think you could cold crash and siphon above the level of the trub and you wouldn't need to filter.. Maybe a hop bag over the end of the siphon if you are real concerned.

 

[RocketOtter]

What are you fermenting in?

In carboys I usually cold crash fruit beers, put a strainer sack over the end of my auto-siphon and rack off the top of the beer trying to leave any fruit remnants in the carboy.

 

[brandonbrummett]

I'm doing my secondary fermentation in a glass carboy.

I've never cold crashed before. I am assuming it means putting your carboy in a fridge for a certain amount of time? How long? And do you have to let it warm back up before you bottle?

 

[MrFancyPlants]

How long you cold crash depend on how cold you can get the beer, and I've heard that you should hold 40f for three days to get all of the yeast and hazyness to drop out. However, I've found that just over night at 40f is good enough for me. It'll drop all the particles large enough to clog any thing up. I am not one to be too particular for clarity in my beer.. I just want a nice round flavor.

 

[Yooper]

Remember that you don't want to aerate or otherwise allow oxygen to ruin the mead by pouring it/straining it/ splashing it so you will probably want to rack it.

 

[brandonbrummett]

I have a feeling my wife is not going to let me rearrange the stuff in our fridge to use to cold crash my carboy full of braggot.

Could you use a big ol' plastic tub full of frozen water bottles to cold crash, and swap out the frozen bottles each day?

 

[Chris_The_Rogue]

Poor the pure into a 2liter or two. Freeze it then let it melt into another container. The ice will act as a filter. Look up applejack/freeze concentration on youtube. Its a bit time consuming but it does work.