Many microbreweries don't filter their beer.  We don't filter our P-47 Warbird Wheat, because traditional German-style wheat beers are not filtered.  Warbird Wheat is cloudy because it still has enough yeast floating around in it to make it "not clear."

T-6 Red Ale, on the other hand, is brilliantly clear.  We carefully filter all of the yeast out of it.  This is photo of Matt operating the filter.  On the left is the filter.  Beer flows from the fermentation tank, though the filter, and into the bigger tank on the right, called the "bright tank."  All of the excess yeast that did not drop out during the last part of the fermentation is trapped on plates inside the bell-shaped housing of the filter.  Inside the bright tank, we add a little carbonation to the beer to get it just right.  At that point, the beer is ready for packaging into cans...big ones (15 1/2 gallon kegs) and little ones (12 ounce cans).

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