fining/filtering S05

[Padalac]

Hey all,

got a massive dank ipa batch lurking in the fermenter, due for bottling this evening. i dry hopped on sunday with about 7g/l of high alpha pellets. All is well, or so it seems . Only problem is, US05 is a crappy crappy flocculator and I don't particularly want a bunch of shite in the bottles. I have dumped as much yeast out of the bottom of the conical fermenter as possible prior to dry hopping, but the beer is still fairly cloudy - and now i've got a ton of soupy hop debris floating in there..

Normally I would cold crash US05 for a few days to drop this stuff out, but I've totally missed the boat on that. Bottling has to happen tonight, so does anyone have any bright ideas for filtering/fining the beer? Obviously, it has to be fairly instant! Let me preface this by saying I do not own any filtering equipment per se, so it has to be whatever I can get hold of at short notice.

[BrannigansLove]

Whenever I've used US05 it's formed massive yeast mats on top, so I just leave an inch or so of beer in the bottom of the FV. This is why I don't use it anymore.

[MTW]

I'd rack it once asap, and the remaining pellets may well then drop in the coming hours. I find any stragglers do that in minutes if they get into the bottling bucket from secondary. Not much else is going to drop in the next few hours though.

[Padalac]

Cheers for comments. Not a great yeast for dropping out. I was meant to be using vermont ipa yeast. But j bloody put it on top of the boiler lid and killed the lot! Filtered it through a hop spider.. worked pretty well so i'll just have to see if it ends up oxidised as a result.

[Deebee]

Hey all,

got a massive dank ipa batch lurking in the fermenter, due for bottling this evening. i dry hopped on sunday with about 7g/l of high alpha pellets. All is well, or so it seems . Only problem is, US05 is a crappy crappy flocculator and I don't particularly want a bunch of shite in the bottles. I have dumped as much yeast out of the bottom of the conical fermenter as possible prior to dry hopping, but the beer is still fairly cloudy - and now i've got a ton of soupy hop debris floating in there..

Normally I would cold crash US05 for a few days to drop this stuff out, but I've totally missed the boat on that. Bottling has to happen tonight, so does anyone have any bright ideas for filtering/fining the beer? Obviously, it has to be fairly instant! Let me preface this by saying I do not own any filtering equipment per se, so it has to be whatever I can get hold of at short notice.

I dislike S05. Find it bland and it never sits on the bottle bottom.
Petsonally i prefer nottingham. Few more esters but hop forward and flocs as well as 04.
The one time i used 05 i used geletine. That was 8 years ago. Never again

[MTW]

One thing about US-05, is that any beer I'm likely to use it in usually gets such a big dry hop, that the haze from that will far outweigh any slight lack of clarity from a few drops of sediment from the yeast getting into the glass... or, alternatively, is so dark, that it doesn't matter either. I like it in American pales, where it does what it says on the tin, and I like it in dark beers, where I think it lets the roast grains shine. Anything in the middle, where I may want some more esters, I tend to choose something else.

It's not my favourite yeast for anything, but it is a very good dried option for producing a consistent flavour and aroma in many styles, at a range of temperatures.