Sediment

[bigj_309]

Hi guys, recently completed my first brew. I opened a bottle two weeks after bottling and it was nice! Very fizzy though! Problem is i could only pour about half the bottle (very carefully) before the sediment mixed up again and clouded the rest so i left the clouded stuff in the bottle to settle. Question is how is best to pour the beer out without clouding it up by disturbing the sediment?

 

[Yooper]

Make sure it's cold. then pour the entire bottle with one motion into your glass (up and down will mix it up). Stop pouring when the beer is yeasty.

If you leave it in the fridge for longer, the yeast should compact better.

 

[schokie]

Make sure you're pouring slowly. If you get a 'glug, glug', it's too fast. The backwash bubbles, if that makes sense, will disturb the sediment at the bottom of the bottle. At least one day in the fridge helps as well.

Also, some yeast just don't settle well. What beer/yeast?

 

[bigj_309]

It was evil dog, double ipa. Came as a kit Bulldog Home brew beer kit Evil Dog American Double IPA https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GTW7HCW/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GTW7HCW/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[shortyz]

Make sure you're pouring slowly. If you get a 'glug, glug', it's too fast. The backwash bubbles, if that makes sense, will disturb the sediment at the bottom of the bottle. At least one day in the fridge helps as well.

Also, some yeast just don't settle well. What beer/yeast?

^ this. also dont pour it all in. make sure its standing up in the fridge

 

[schokie]

It was evil dog, double ipa. Came as a kit Bulldog Home brew beer kit Evil Dog American Double IPA

That should floculate well, meaning the yeast falls out and settles to the bottom. However, some of that sediment may be hop residue. Is it larger white flakes, or small white/gray specks? Hop and other trub will be the larger stuff, yeast will be the smaller.

 

[flars]

It is possible to short of primary time did not allow the trub to compact. Siphoning to the bottling bucket will then pick up more of the debris suspended just off the bottom of the fermentor.
Moving the fermentor before racking to the bottling bucket will also stir up the trub layer allowing more than the suspended yeast to end up in the bottles.