Filtering Break material - is this a good/bad method?

[Maritimer]

I'm trying to come up with a way of filtering the break material before it hits my carboy, I'm running a CFC and currently everything goes into the fermenter.
I'm thinking I can use large funnel with a sanitized coffee filter on the neck of my carboy, Bam! all the break material collects in the coffee filter. I can swap filters out as they get clogged (thinking about having a stand by filter/funnel ready to go).

Has anyone tried this before? Is there a better way?

[Jimmy]

What's your reasoning for wanting to filter out the trub?

[Maritimer]

An experiment. I'm doing a my first lager this weekend and thinking it would be nice to get the wort as clean as possible. I haven't noticed any negative affects with the trub in the carboy, but I've never tried filtering it either.

[Jimmy]

Fair enough. Always good to experiment.

What is your method for draining your kettle? Do you have a ball valve with pickup tube? Do you use a racking cane? Dump it in the fermenter?

[mr x]

That trub won't filter. It disintegrates and passes through. You need to let is settle and rack off, or dump from your super cool conical.

[Maritimer]

haha, right. I totally forgot about my conical. lol.
I have a ball valve on the bottom of my kettle. I guess I could rack it to a second carboy but that's a whole other process I don't like messing around with wort too much after it's cooled.
When I pitched my triple the break line 3/4 up my carboy, I wish i'd taken a photo. It has since cleared pretty well.

[Jimmy]

You can try adding a side pickup to your kettle, so it pulls the wort from the side of the kettle. Do a whirlpool after the boil, let it sit for 15 min, then slowly drain it into your fermenter. That's what I do if I want to keep the wort clear, though I rarely do it as it doesn't affect the finished beer.

[Maritimer]

my only issue is my franken-kettle doesn't have threads on the inside, it's some sort of press fit joint with an insert that's threaded on the outside only. If it works for you guys I think I'll just keep dumping it in the carboy.

[CartoonCod]

I do a poor mans whirpool with a metal spoon, then use a tube to siphone the wort from the side of the kettle into my fermenting carboy. With some practice it works suprisingly well.

[Tony L]

When I use my conical, I just dump it after it settles, but when I am using a carboy, I let it settle in a carboy and them rack
to my primary carboy. An extra step, I konw,but i feel it is needed to keep my brew as clear and trub free as I can.

[Maritimer]

I'm going to rack to secondary after a week and a half or so and see how it works out. I figure that's a happy medium.

[CorneliusAlphonse]

I dump everything from the kettle into the primary. I usually don't care about clarity so I leave it for a while then siphon for kegging/bottling. If I cared about clarity, I think a cold crash and more care to avoid sucking trub when I siphon would do it.

[RubberToe]

Lots of trub doesn't effect clarity, don't worry about it. My only reason for wanting to get rid of trub is to have more room in the carboy. I have lots and lots of trub, fine crush BIAB and very clear beer.

Sent from the brew timer.

[Tony L]

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