Straining/filtering beer after it's been kegged and carbed?

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29thfloor

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A couple months ago I made a Belgian Milk Stout and then decided to add 5 lbs of strawberries to it in secondary. And then for some reason that wasn't enough so I decided to add half a bottle of Adult Strawberry Milk in the keg.

The beer now looks like this:

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It doesn't taste bad but I'm wondering if there's a way I can strain that stuff out. I was thinking of just racking to another keg and running it through one of the grain bags I used to use for steeping specialty grains. I'm assuming I would want to let it go flat first but are there any other considerations?

Would I be better off actually running it through something like this?
http://beersmith.com/blog/2010/08/27/filtering-home-brewed-beer/

You can read the full back story on my blog:
http://29thfloor.com/2013/08/strawberry-belgian-milk-stout-part-3-ive-made-a-terrible-mistake/
http://29thfloor.com/2013/07/strawb...ut-part-2-secondary-fermentation-and-kegging/
http://29thfloor.com/2013/06/strawberry-belgian-milk-stout/
 
I would think flushing the new keg with co2 and using a sanitized cheese cloth or grain bag at end of tubing and pushing with co2 would work.
 
Just go to the hip part of town and tell people its tapioca beer they'll buy it all up....seriously though I have no idea what your best course of action is..
 
Ick.:drunk:

That's the first time I've ever heard of someone adding milk to a batch of beer. What was it that you were trying to accomplish?

Something like that I would guess is going to be pretty hard to undo.

Maybe if you put it in a blender with a few scoops of ice cream........................ :D
 
I filter my beer with a filter like the first link you provided. Works great. I got mine super cheap on amazon and made the rest of the connections myself. Just go liquid out to liquid in, and you shouldn't have any oxidation issues. If you pressure up the keg it's going into first, you shouldn't lose much carbonation. Just bleed the excess pressure off as you go until it is done transferring.
 
Ick.:drunk:

That's the first time I've ever heard of someone adding milk to a batch of beer. What was it that you were trying to accomplish?

Something like that I would guess is going to be pretty hard to undo.

Maybe if you put it in a blender with a few scoops of ice cream........................ :D

That's actually not a bad idea :mug:

I was assuming there wasn't actually milk in the Adult Strawberry Milk since it's stored at room temperature. But I guess that doesn't mean anything. Probably should have thought it through a bit more :drunk:
 
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