How can I bottle my beer from a Mr. Beer kit when there is yeast sediment built up around the tap of the keg?!
Answers: I have some beer fermenting in my Mr. Beer keg. I'm on day number 9 of letting it ferment because it still tasted a little sweet. Also, when I sampled a bit of it I could tell that there was still floating yeast particles in the beer. I looked inside the keg and found that the yeast sediment settled it's way around the tap of the keg. This means that when I empty the beer from the keg, the yeast sediment is comming out with the beer. How can I stop the yeast from getting in with the bottled beer?
hate to be the bearer or bad news, the beer mixes in the mr beer kits suck and the yeast is really cheap so you may just end up dumping it (its what i did when i made the mix that came with the kit). the yeast they use is probably pretty low quality, id let it sit for 14 days. if you want to get into brewing, buy the ingredients (real hops, better quality extracts, specialty grains, yeast, etc.) from a home brew store or the internet and get recipies from somewhere like beertools.com or byo.com; you can make much better beer for less money than what their junky kits cost.
ive been brewing ~2 years and most people that brew are downers on novelty kits like mr beer, but i actually still make mine in a mr beer most of the time because i like the 2 gallon size better than the standard 5 gallon carboys, i like experimenting and making my own recipies and i dont have as much crappy beer to drink if it turns out bad. i have a very fine strainer that i put between the tap and a funnel when im bottling, and the strainer catches most of the big chunks and there will be some sediment in the bottles most likely anyway so it doesnt matter that much. the yeast doesnt really hurt you (though some people say it can give you gas or diarreha), its more just displeasing to the eye.
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