Now, the next step to brewing beer is the conditioning and filtering. These two steps will be what makes your beer the color you desire and the flavor you love. On the other hand, not all beer is filtered. What does conditioning and filtering do?
- Conditioning is where the beer is cooled to around freezing
- This encourages the yeast to settle
- The beers flavor becomes smoother
- Now pressure is used to prevent beer from going flat
- Now it gets filtered and processes through screens
- This removes yeast and solids, how much depends on the filters.
- To tight of filters will remove the color and body from the beer
There are several types of filters, which include:
- Rough-removes much of the yeast and solids
- Fine-you could read a newspaper through it because it is so clear from removing almost all of it
- Sterile-almost all microorganisms are removed.
