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Mesh filter for bottling bucket to prevent racking cane clog?

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timbudtwo

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So I brewed my first porter about a month ago (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f126/choconut-porter-54159/) and everything went fine until it went to bottling time. There was so much sediment after the fermentation that the racking cane would continually clog up. I cleaned it out a couple times but having to resterilize it while bottling was annoying so I just decided to grin an bear it. It probably tripled my bottling time (im so glad I am going to switch to kegging soon.)

Is there a way to keep things from getting terribly clogged up? Would putting a stainless mesh filter over the exit tube (inside the bucket) help? I know I could put it in a secondary and probably save myself but I am not really interested in doing a secondary yet.

Btw, I did a BIAB and I doubled up on the paint strainers.

Thanks
 
Why do you have so much junk in your bottling bucket? Thar's your problem. Did you not rack to your bottling bucket right before bottling?

Forgive my noobish-ness. I haven't been brewing for long.

I was under the impression that there were various methods to racking, and I have never had any issues with racking straight from fermentation bucket. Until now I did not consider it to be necessary to transfer to another bucket prior to bottling.

Is that a huge mistake?

Thanks
 
Forgive my noobish-ness. I haven't been brewing for long.

I was under the impression that there were various methods to racking, and I have never had any issues with racking straight from fermentation bucket. Until now I did not consider it to be necessary to transfer to another bucket prior to bottling.

Is that a huge mistake?

Thanks

I think you found your issues. :D There's nothing wrong with what you're describing, but you're going to run into exactly the problems you're describing here. I assumed you had a separate bottling bucket because of your thread title. A steel filter won't fix it, because the yeast is fine and thick.

I've always used a bottling bucket, but part of that is just because I hate carb tabs.
 
I think you found your issues. :D There's nothing wrong with what you're describing, but you're going to run into exactly the problems you're describing here. I assumed you had a separate bottling bucket because of your thread title. A steel filter won't fix it, because the yeast is fine and thick.

I've always used a bottling bucket, but part of that is just because I hate carb tabs.

Ah, okay. I thought there was something magical that people did to prevent the hop bits and whatever from clogging up the pipes.

Okay, thanks. I will have to start using a bucket anyway if I am going to move to kegs.
 
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