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I was thinking of running primary fermentation Carboy through some type of fine water type filter to clear it up. Is it possible? What type of filter to use? Will this affect beer after secondary Carboy and will I be able to carbonate in the bottle? I'm guessing that if I filter out everything I might not have any yeast left for bottling sugar to interact with?
 
Filtering usually removes most of the yeast so you would want to re-pitch in the bottling bucket with a good bottling yeast. Also, there would be no reason to put the beer into a secondary fermenter after filtering. Just primary a little longer to give the yeast time to clean house, then filter to crystal clear.
 
Oh, and use a mechanical filter only (pleated membrane) no smaller than 5 micron, otherwise you will strip out flavor elements from your beer.

No activated carbon or other chemical filtration of any kind.
 
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