I was very pleased with how clear my last 2 brews were in the fermentor after fining, and was looking forward to having clear beer from my keg right from the off.
However, when I began to transfer the first of the beer to keg, chunks or globules of sedimented yeast were sucked over with the first 6 or so pints of beer. I think these may have been hanging or resting around the tap. In future to avoid this and maintain that only clear beer be brought over, I will perform the bottling I usually do with the remainder of the beer after filling the keg, at the beginning. The yeast will go with the beer into the 10 bottles, leaving the remaining flow of 19L sediment free to go in to the keg. The bottles will clear over time, and sediment not poured into glass.
As with almost everything I do in this wonderful hobby, wish I'd thought of it earlier!
Filling a Corni with Bright Beer.
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I rack from primary, be it a bucket or a "heavy" poly fermenter into a secondary, for which I use my array of old pressure kegs, after about a week.
This has the effect of getting the beer off the yeast bed into a clean container. I then allow it to condition for two weeks after which I rack it to a corny. I always draw a test off first for gravity and taste and usually find that any yeast crud which has built up on the float is drawn off with the sample.
Once in the cornie it's pressured to 30psi until I want to drink it when the pressure is reduced to about 4-6psi
nine times out of ten it's clear, once in a while the first couple of pints some out a tad cloudy suggesting that not quite all the fermentables are spent when it was racked.
I never use finings, I've never found the need.
This has the effect of getting the beer off the yeast bed into a clean container. I then allow it to condition for two weeks after which I rack it to a corny. I always draw a test off first for gravity and taste and usually find that any yeast crud which has built up on the float is drawn off with the sample.
Once in the cornie it's pressured to 30psi until I want to drink it when the pressure is reduced to about 4-6psi
nine times out of ten it's clear, once in a while the first couple of pints some out a tad cloudy suggesting that not quite all the fermentables are spent when it was racked.
I never use finings, I've never found the need.