Yeast at the bottle of bottles

[azezal]

This was on my first brew. I followed the instructions perfectly and still found that after 1 week of my beer bottles of being in the fridge, they have a small rather unmoving white sludge on the bottom. At first I thought, that despite my best efforts, I thought I had messed up the syphoning and got sedement in the beer.

I later found this was not true. Although I dipped slightly into the sediment on my last bottles with my sedement prevention syphon. I was shocked to notice that all my bottles had a thin layer of sludge/yeast on the bottom. I did not disturb the sedement.

i just wanted to know more about this white sludge yeast at the bottom of the bottles. Is there a simple way to prevent it or does it need expencive exipment to stop this happening.

Mostly importanly is it safe to drink if you finish the bottle?

 

[A T]

If it's just a thin layer it's nothing to worry about, you need these yeasts to consume the priming sugars and carbonate the beer. Keep the bottles upright at all times and when you're pouring into a pint glass do so smoothly and in one go leaving about 10 mm of beer in the bottom of the bottle. It's a bit of an art you'll master in no time

 

[jamesb]

Heh.

Your beer will contain yeast even after you've racked it, this white sludge is just the yeast coming out of suspension over time.

Perfectly safe to drink if you feel the need to clear out your system

Erm.. I meant it's perfectly safe to drink but excess yeast can give you botty coughs.