Does filtered beer contain yeast?

[Cwrw666]

Might sound like a dumb question but I've just been given a box of beer from a local brewery with about 2 gallons of beer left in it. I know it'll start tasting pretty lifeless soon so I was wondering if I could just prime it and bottle what's left. I know they filter their beer but does that remove all the yeast?

 

[BREWERS DROOP]

I did a brew once with a 1 micron filter for bottling,it wasn't good, so i would think it would remove the yeast, otherwise i would have had good carbonation, which i didnt

 

[Wouter]

Depends on how they filter it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filtered_beer

1 micron removes yeast definately.

 

[Cwrw666]

Cheers, guys. I suppose I could always chuck in a bit of dried yeast as well as priming sugar. It's actually not bad beer (dark heart 5% by Mantle brewery, Cardigan).

 

[Wouter]

Cheers, guys. I suppose I could always chuck in a bit of dried yeast as well as priming sugar. It's actually not bad beer (dark heart 5% by Mantle brewery, Cardigan).

Best not to do that with just any yeast. The yeast may be a different strain than the one they used and therefor gobble up some extra sugars , making your bottles go kaboom!

Better to use special bottling yeast! For instance SafAle F-2.

 

[Clint]

Have a BBQ or the like get some people round and make them drink it...it'll keep them off your supplies.

 

[MyQul]

Re-seeding with bottling yeast is common practice for those brewers who lager for extended periods of time as their none left in the beer to carb it up. If you google something like "reseeding lager with yeast" you can find out how. Here the google hits I got (there's some good hit's from jims)

https://www.google.com/search?clien...257TbAhWEIcAKHRTlDvIQBQgkKAA&biw=1366&bih=654

 

[divrack]

a bit of us05 would be fine or champagne.