Sediment

Grant McNab · 2024-11-20T22:41:47+0000

Yeah, a bit of a strange title.
I often watch beer reviews on Youtube, and if it's a bottle conditioned beer, the reviewer more often than not will pour most of the bottle, then swirl the remainder before adding it to the glass.
Now, the majority of my homebrews go into bottles and I've always been cautious about avoiding pouring the last bit into the glass.
I don't mind a hazy beer, but if I do the "swirl and pour" at the end, will it be ok, or have me running to the toilet at some point?

Cheers n Beers.

samale · 2024-11-20T23:19:12+0000

I leave the sediment behind, it's not great for My bowel. Sediment is normally only added in certain styles. Mainly wheat Beers, Belgian wit's. I can't drink beer with floaters

Brew_DD2 · 2024-11-20T23:41:50+0000

samale said:
I leave the sediment behind, it's not great for My bowel. Sediment is normally only added in certain styles. Mainly wheat Beers, Belgian wit's. I can't drink beer with floaters

Yeah, it can make you a bit gassy. It's not really appropriate to style, and apart from the styles that Samale has listed, it just doesn't taste great.

klaus · 2024-11-21T08:33:56+0000

Generally I get a clear beer with careful pouring.
Sometimes it will be hazy - I call that "naturally hazy" if anyone asks.
No adverse impacts (bowels or otherwise). Mixing it up for wheat beer is quite popular in Germany.

jof · 2024-11-21T10:05:12+0000

I leave the last cm in the bottle along with the sediment when I pour it too.

With wheat beer I will pour it all, but I won't deliberately swirl the entire sediment in, so you get some yeast haze, but not soup.

Druss · 2024-11-21T11:02:14+0000

I regularly sacrifice the last inch or so in the bottle, a little extreme perhaps, but I tend to be quite sensitive to the taste that sediment imparts into beer and it makes me gag.