Filtering your Wort

[Skid20]

What is your best way of filtering your wort?
Ive tried several ways myself including:

Using a syphion and trying not to suring the ck up the yeast and pouring the rest through an old tee shirt
Using a SS fine mesh stinger attached to the end of a hose
Using coffe filters.

I still end up with a final racking that has yeast floating in it.

What do you use or what is your process???

[CaptMorgan]

I siphonn without writing up the bottom gunk. Sometimes I will do this twice. Filtering through coffee filters takes way too long. As long as you don't have lots of solids, you should be OK.

Your yeast is floating after racking? Seems strange to me, mine is always on the bottom. I usually allow it to sit undisturbed a few days after the ferment stops. This allows everything to settle out.

[jedneck]

Steam injection. No filter or scorch.

[skow69]

Vacuum still in a bain marie. I can distill bark-o-mulch.

[Badmotivator]

Vacuum still in a bain marie. I can distill bark-o-mulch.

Sounds yummy, Skow. Is that in the tried-and-true section?

[skow69]

Ya, look for Eau de Hemlock.

[Radek]

Hi.
Do not use coffe filters, use 80g filtering paper for alcohol: http://alcofermbrew.com/en/Equipment/FI ... 4c160.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
or (i thing better way) turbo klar (It removes the solids and semi-soluble compounds which can cause problems later): http://alcofermbrew.com/en/SUPER-KLAR-p69c62c100.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

[Radek]

Check sugar contain in the wort using saccharometer - if there is any sugar You have to do re-fermentation. Leave it for 2-3 weeks and gravity will do the rest. After 3 weeks Your wort will be clean.

[NZChris]

I put the first half bucket of cloudy stuff back into the fermenter or press to filter through the grain bed, pomace, whatever. Otherwise, I don't bother with filtering, racking, fining etc..

[midlife-u-turn]

My outlet on my fermenters are high enough from the bottom it doesn't disturb the yeast bed. If the bulk of the yeast hasn't settled out you're pulling it off too soon. I run my hose through two of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Gallon-Strainer-F ... sel+filter" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
Into a 5 gallon bucket and secondary rack it to two carboys. Let it settle out for a week or until my second batch comes off the fermenter. Siphon it off the carboys and leave the yeast sediment in the bottom.

[Skid20]

What are you using for a corn mash? Ive tride everthing from panty hose (pissed wife off) too collanders and it if the mesh is small enough to hold pack the corn paste, it dosnt pass the liquid easily and if is passes the liquid I get too much paste. Id fermente it with out put at some point im going to have to seperate it as it will burn on my element.

[still_stirrin]

What are you using for a corn mash?

Try the "ass press". Search for it...
ss

edit - since I'm such a nice guy, I dug up a link to S-C's discussion:
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... 0#p7363819

[Skid20]

What are you using for a corn mash?

Try the "ass press". Search for it...
ss

edit - since I'm such a nice guy, I dug up a link to S-C's discussion:
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... 0#p7363819

That will work for next time, but I failed to think ahead and need to filter it out now and cheese cloth just isnt cutting it

[skow69]

To get it as clear as you seem to want, I think you will either have to run it through coffee filters and just accept how long it takes, or cold crash it, which might not be any faster. There is no magic bullet here. Some things just take time.

As for myself, I just let it clear itself when it's done fermenting, and siphon it off. Like I said, I'm not very picky.

Cheers.