Captain Grey
Member
Hi all. I'm having a unique issue that I am struggling to find an answer to online:
Uninspired by my last berry mead feeling empty on the back end, I decided to try and make a berry bomb.
The berries were under pectic enzyme for a full week in the fridge, after that I pulled it out, filtered out as much of the solids as I could (keeping as much juice as humanly possible) and added honey, yeast, etc.
Following primary, I racked that into a container through a straining bag (https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-fruit-straining-bag/p/0468413) and homogenised - it has been sat settling out since then, as seen in the pictures attached.
My problem comes in that that is a lot of fruit solid that has dropped out of suspension, and there is going to be a fair amount of lost yield in there.
I have seen some talk about nut milk bags, and will be getting one to test if that works, but other than that I can only find info about keg to keg beer filtering systems, I was wondering if there was another way - something finer than the nut milk bag, while not requiring me to buy kegs?
Uninspired by my last berry mead feeling empty on the back end, I decided to try and make a berry bomb.
The berries were under pectic enzyme for a full week in the fridge, after that I pulled it out, filtered out as much of the solids as I could (keeping as much juice as humanly possible) and added honey, yeast, etc.
Following primary, I racked that into a container through a straining bag (https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-fruit-straining-bag/p/0468413) and homogenised - it has been sat settling out since then, as seen in the pictures attached.
My problem comes in that that is a lot of fruit solid that has dropped out of suspension, and there is going to be a fair amount of lost yield in there.
I have seen some talk about nut milk bags, and will be getting one to test if that works, but other than that I can only find info about keg to keg beer filtering systems, I was wondering if there was another way - something finer than the nut milk bag, while not requiring me to buy kegs?