How to Filter the Yeast Out of Beer

Use your beer dispenser to help filter your beer.

Filtering the yeast out of your beer is a wise way to add crystal clear shine to your beverage. Non-metabolized yeast proteins that are not broken down will give beer a foggy or hazy look, according to Home Brew Digest. Filtering yeast is a straight-forward process beginning with kegs and a standard beer dispensing system. Hook up the system with a couple of hoses and a filtration cartridge, and you are on your way to a beautiful beer. Does this Spark an idea?

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Full beer keg with finished beer
Empty keg
Beer dispenser
CO2 tank
2 fresh keg couplers
3 fresh beer line jumper hoses
Polypropylene yeast filtration cartridge

Instructions

- 1
  
  Turn off and disconnect the CO2 tank from the current tank of beer. Disconnect any currently used kegs and hoses from your beer dispenser. You want to use fresh hoses and couplers for filtration to ensure an uncontaminated transfer of beer.
- 2
  
  Twist on and connect one of the fresh keg couplers to the full keg of finished beer. Reconnect the CO2 tank to the full keg of beer. Connect one beer line jumper hose from the top of the coupler to the dispenser lever. Use prefabricated hose connectors to secure an attachment to the coupler.
- 3
  
  Remove a connector from one end of the second hose. Fit this end over the beer dispenser nozzle. Twist on and connect the opposite end to the polypropylene yeast filtration cartridge.
- 4
  
  Twist on and connect one end of the third hose to the opposite end of the cartridge. Connect the opposite end of the third hose to the empty keg.
- 5
  
  Turn on the CO2 tank. Pull the beer dispenser lever and filter the beer. Watch the beer draw up from the full keg, filter through the cartridge, and end up in the empty keg.