Just looking for a little information

[tavish2]

the other thing you can do to have less yeast in your beer is to cold crash it. bring it down to the mid 30s before racking it. this will cause the yeast to flocculate and drop to the bottom of the fermenter. then tranfer the beer to your keg or bottling vessel and seal up. with enough time at a cold temp all yeast will settle out.

[Mylo]

If you bottle condition - you will always have some sediment in the bottom. No worries. Just decant slowly in to a glass. If you are sharing and pouring several small glasses - don't return the bottle to vertical between each one.


Mylo

[Dmp]

Travis,

Isn't it a problem if I chill all the yeast out then bottle it up then it will never ferment in the bottle correct? If I was to chill all the yeast out when would I ad the priming sugar...before or after chilling? Could I chill it out then inject co2 into the bottles?

[Bellmer]

If you're going to cold crash and then bottle condition, what I've always done is add new active yeast and the bottling sugar at bottling time.

I believe that if you cold crash you need to either add new yeast or carbonate with CO2, whether it be kegging it or counter-pressure bottle filling it etc.

Also, some of us actually enjoy the yeast sediment. Especially in beers like Belgians where it really changes the character over time. Can't do that with force-carbonation (but it also doesn't do anything for a lot of beers, especially quick-drinking beers).

[tavish2]

welll........


What you have to remember is that if you dont filter it, there will always be (unless you let it set for a year in a secondary) yeast left in solution. It might take a bit longer to carbonate cause there is less yeast in solution, but it will eventually. What you have to remember is that you are dealing with hundreds of billions of organizms. Think about people. There are the ones who wont start a race, there are ones who walk the first part and give up, there are people who run the first part and give up, there are people who walk the whole thing and finish, and there are people who run the whole thing and finish. Like wise, yeast will have some the portion of the population that will flocculate out early, half way through, at the end of fermentation and never.

[Dmp]

Wait wait wait, So if my beer has a little bit of yeast left over at bottling (and carbonating) and I drink the whole beer I will be okay? (no stomach ache, etc).

I'm doing a Vegas trip in august I want to get a couple batches of beers to drink out there. So, I'm thinking that chilling out (or cold freezing or whatever it was called [I'll go back and learn the right term) and then adding CO2 manually the bottle might be the best option.

[Bellmer]

Wait wait wait, So if my beer has a little bit of yeast left over at bottling (and carbonating) and I drink the whole beer I will be okay? (no stomach ache, etc).

I'm doing a Vegas trip in august I want to get a couple batches of beers to drink out there. So, I'm thinking that chilling out (or cold freezing or whatever it was called [I'll go back and learn the right term) and then adding CO2 manually the bottle might be the best option.

If anything you're better off. The yeast at the bottom is full of complex B-vitamins, which are the vitamins that alcohol depletes from your system (as well as other benefits). It's far healthier to drink the yeast than not (not sure how true that holds with sour beers, but I'm pretty certain you aren't making those yet. In my experience, my "digestion" works much better when I regularly drink sour beers, though).

EDIT:

B Vitamin benefits FYI:

# Support and increase the rate of metabolism
# Maintain healthy skin and muscle tone
# Enhance immune and nervous system function
# Promote cell growth and division — including that of the red blood cells that help prevent anemia.
# Reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal forms of cancer[4], when consumed in food, but not when ingested in vitamin tablet form.

[from Wikipedia]

[Mylo]

Wait wait wait, So if my beer has a little bit of yeast left over at bottling (and carbonating) and I drink the whole beer I will be okay? (no stomach ache, etc).

No stomach ache, but you might get some serious gas.


Mylo