Bought a cheap wineeer filter...first impressions

[fakr]

Instead of going the route of using clarifiers, I decided to try out a real cheap filtering system the local brew shop had on sale.  I believe others on the forum have mentioned they have the same one.  it comes with an air pump (2.5psi), a bunch of hoses, a cap for your carboy, and 2 big orange plates that the filters go in.

Well, first impressions are:

unless you have over an hour to kill waiting for a carboy of stout to filter, don't bother....or just don't try fitering stout!

Not very impressed with the setup, but again, could be because I was excited and attempted to fiter stout.  Took over an hour, but I was surprised at how clean the beer was coming out the filtered side.

I'm going to do another run through the filter with a lighter beer next time, and if it is still slow, I'm going to frankenstein the filter setup with a couple of liquid ball fittings fittings so I can force beer through the filter at a little higher psi than 2.5 using two kegs.  I'm thinking 5-7psi would be fine.

I did notice, with a small sip, that the filtered stout did taste...well, more polished is all I can come up with.  The mouth feel was clean, and I found a bit more of an expresso flavor than the unfiltered kegged stout.

Anyways, just thought I'd share.

[Kyle]

I still found it an irritating process to use and clean, but I have one of those cartridge water filters with a housing that can handle 120psi from Home Depot. You can send stuff through a 5 micron filter within about 20 minutes, and through a 0.5 micron filter in about an hour.

I just use Whirlfloc now, the filter was a PIA to clean.

[fakr]

yeah, after I mess around with every known clarifying agent, and cheap filtering system, I might just end up visiting the local brew shop to borrow one of their industrial type filtering systems.  They loan them out to people...I borrow one when I make wine....empties and filters a carboy of wine in about 3 minutes.
But, one of the fun things with craft brewing is the experimenting!