Re: Filters: Canister vs. Plate

Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:26 pm

I believe Tasty has been back and forth on filtration/fining, not sure if he's arrive at a favorite or not...
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Re: Filters: Canister vs. Plate

Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:54 pm

whada you do Spider?
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Re: Filters: Canister vs. Plate

Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:20 pm

the colder the better (no freezing, though :) ). It also helps if the beer is already cold and the haze has already developed.

But 40 works too.

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Re: Filters: Canister vs. Plate

Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:23 pm

Many thanks once again Kai!

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Re: Filters: Canister vs. Plate

Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:35 pm

brewindruid wrote:whada you do Spider?


Finings... filtering sounds like an enormous PITA. But then my brewing philosophy is "It's done when it's done" so filtering doesn't really fit into that real well.
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Re: Filters: Canister vs. Plate

Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:40 am

I've played with filtering as well, and Spider's right, it's an enormous PITA. I have 2 cartridges for my canister (I forget the micron level on either, but there's a super tight one & a looser one) I tried just running it through the tighter of the two only to fight with it the whole way. You almost have to do a double filtration in steps to prevent it clogging up constantly. That's a major pain as well, cleaning and sanitizing everything twice. I finally gave up & just drink whatever whirlfloc gives me. If I needed to get it clearer for a comp, I'd go gelatin as well as turning an extra keg into a bright tank (by cutting a couple inches from the diptube). Luckily a canister filter can be turned into a Randall pretty easily, as that's the only thing I see a use for it as.
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