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I was wondering if anyone has run across this problem with their beer. I make homebrew but I bring it out to a store that filters, carbonates, and bottles the beer for me. It is perfectly clear for about 2 months and then it appears to develop a very fine sediment.
I keep it stored in a dark closet in my basement. The temperature is cool and it is dark. My brother and I usually do beer together and the same thing has been happening to his as well. It also happens to all of our beers and not just one particular type. We have done a Wheat Beer, a Brown Ale, a Canadian Light, and a Munton's Pale Ale since last October.
Can anyone give me a probable cause for this and a possible solution.
Thank You
Newfie John

Newfie John

Don't forget to put the clocks forward to night. All is well with your beer, it is yeast dropping out (the filter in the homebrew shop will allow micro yeast to pass through) provided the beer itself is still clear.

If the beer is cloudy and tastes bad you have an infection. Nice of the HBS to do that for you, mine was charging some large dolars.

Dogger

Newfie John
How much do they charge for that?

The commercial beer is done pretty much the same way, but once bottled the pasturise it, ie heat it up to kill bcateria, including the yeast, which stops the fine sediment.

The lady in the store charges us $20 for a batch. That includes the filtering, bottling, and the bottle caps. Works for us as I like making and drinking the beer but I hate bottling it.
The yeast dropping makes sense and I will tell the lady as she was wondering what the cause was as well. Is it possible for them to use finer filters or would they just get clogged?
Newfie John

Whats wrong with you canucks

Newfie John

Yes you can use finer plates but then you will start to take out body from the beer.

Dogger

Hooha,

There is nothing wrong with us, when are the rest of you lot going to catch up?

Dogger

polard wrote:The lady in the store charges us $20 for a batch. That includes the filtering, bottling, and the bottle caps.

Does that $20 include the fermentables, hops and yeast as well, or is it just for bottling?

his first post says he makes homebrew then brings it to the shop for filtering and bottling

Holy elephant poo! I've moving over there.