homebrew sediment

[william2010]

So I'm knew with s lot of this and so I was wondering. I had a beer from a place called gilgamesh brewery in Salem Oregon . And I heard that you get sediment in the bottom of your homebrews. I haven't bottled any of my batches yet so I haven't seen it yet. But I do believe there wasn't any sediment in his beer. He is a homebrewer. How do you get it out? Or do you jot want to? Is it good ? Bad? Why is it there and what is it?

 

[Krazykripple]

the sediment in the bottles is usually yeast that's dropped out of suspension. It's not harmful, it just makes your beer a bit cloudy if you disturb it while pouring. some styles like belgian witbiers are supposed to be a bit cloudy so if you're brewing/drinking those you can turn the bottle over a few times to stir the yeast up, otherwise just pour your beers carefully and they should stay pretty clear.

 

[Pie_Man]

I cold crash my beer which helps to clarify it. Cold crashing is just getting your beer cold (probably about 40F, maybe lower) for a few days before bottling. This helps to drop a lot of the sediment out of suspension. There's still some sediment in my bottle, but it's better than not cold crashing. Kegging beer also seems to help as the keg is stored for a long time at cold temperatures.

There are ways to filter your beer by running it through a pressurized container with filtering screens. The screens are usually about 3 microns, I think. That's a lot of work IMO and not something I've done before.

 

[edmanster]

I keg my beers and fill bottles off the keg with a beer gun.. I get little to no sediment in my bottles..

Edit: that is all done at cold temperatures..

 

[bk0]

Your brews will have sediment if you naturally carbonate with bottle conditioning. If you want sediment free beer you'll need to keg/force-carbonate and possibly use clarifiers as well. I don't like force carbing, makes the beer too fizzy.