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straining the beer
Like I said before I'm new at this. I like dark very hoppy beers, so I am getting alot of junk in my bottles... I am reading all the articles and still am confused. They say not to get any air in the batch, to be very careful, don't strain, use the rack for the secondary.so have been only racking not using a strainer, I started to use a secondary ferment to rack again and dry hop this last batch of beer has lots of junk floating in it. I strained it when I poured it into the primary I racked it into a secondary to dry hop and used a cheesecloth around the auto siphon so I wouldn't get junk int he secondary . My bottles have all kinds of things floating around int it. I am liking the beers I'm making, my kids are drinking them up as fast as I can bottle, but they just don't look nice. Taste fine and I guess that 's good just wish they didn't have all the gunk in them.
I assume you are bottling all your beer. Leave the bottles in the fridge for a week and then carefully pour each bottle into the glass leaving the sediment on the bottom. Otherwise almost all of my dry hopped beer is a touch more cloudy than the beers that I don't dry hop.
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no , it's not just sediment, on the bottom,I mean I have gunk floating around, in the beer, like you need to drink it through your teeth to strain out the stuff. Do you think I should of strained it before I bottled it I did rack it twice.
are you dry hopping in a muslin bag? If you just put the hops straight in the beer with no real controlled way of getting them back out then that might be where you are getting all the floaties from.
something like this
http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_i … ts_id=1051
I know it says for the boil but it works equally well in secondary to hold the hops in and whala! its much easier to get the hops out.
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No, you don't want to pass your finished beer through a strainer for the reason you already stated, unless you like cardboard flavored beer. Using a strainer post fermentation will cause you beer to oxidize.
Is it hops that you're having a problem with making it into the bottles? The method I use to leave all that crap behind is to wrap my auto syphon in one of those nylon hop bags &/or to hold it up off the bottom of the bucket/carboy while it syphons. Holding the autosyphon above the sediment at the bottom should leave most of it behind, as long as it isn't disturbed much.
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