Worth investing in a pump, or more important things?

[ThreeSheets]

Get er brewed Ferminator as I recall ..

Yep thank you so much... annoying though, it's just marginally over budget (+£70 ish) even on a black friday sale

 

[Agentgonzo]

At the minute I'm leaning toward into how to get a clear beer filter

With a few fining additions, you get get "pretty clear" beer into the fermenter. This is what I get with a small protafloc addition a bit of whirlpooling and relying on the simple hop filter that you get with the grainfather which is designed to stop the pump clogging. No special filtering in place

From there, if you let the beer settle in the fermenter, you get "clear" beer once it's been bottled/kegged you can see straight through. If you want crystal clear beer, you can get extra filters, but if you filter out all the yeast there won't be any to bottle condition.

But don't forget that "clear beer into the fermenter" does not equate to "clear beer in the glass". https://brulosophy.com/2020/05/11/kettle-trub-low-vs-high-in-a-german-pils-exbeeriment-results/