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Beer Filter - Plate Filter
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Beer Filter - Plate Filter

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Description

Filter beer like the pros, only on a smaller scale. Most small breweries and wineries use a large plate filter system to achieve clear beer or wine. Now you can do the same at home. Our new plate filter has a larger surface area, which means more yeast and particulate extraction.

Each filtering session requires two filter pads at a time, and each pad must be the same micron to work. The product is pushed into the housing at 5 PSI and passes on either side of the plate filter housing, then gets forced through the filter pads to the center, where it is pushed out into your awaiting collection vessel, such as a keg or tank.

Includes 2 X 24" long hoses (5/16" ID x 7/16" OD)

Made from ABS plastic. Temperature rated to 167°F (75°C).

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Only plate filter I could find, now I need a peristaltic pump, please help
Jeffry F on May 4, 2020
Same
Carl E on Jun 6, 2019
Only plate filter I could find, now I need a peristaltic pump, please help
Jeffry F on May 4, 2020
Liked the first one.
Valued C on Dec 4, 2019
Same
Carl E on Jun 6, 2019
To remove sediment and suspended particulates
THOMAS C K on Apr 15, 2019
filter for muscadine wine
Isahunter on Aug 7, 2018
Liked the first one.
Valued C on Dec 4, 2019
To remove sediment and suspended particulates
THOMAS C K on Apr 15, 2019
What kind of plastic is this? Can i autoclave it?
Jeff K on Apr 23, 2020
BEST ANSWER: Hi Jeff - the plate filter is made from ABS plastic and has a temperature rating of 167°F (75°C). We do not recommend autoclaving.
Could you use duo tight connectors on this filter instead of the barbs and hose clamps?
Ross Sigworth on Sep 3, 2020
Plate Filter
Plate Filter
Duotight Push-In Fitting - 8 mm (5/16 in.) Joiner
Duotight Push-In Fitting - 8 mm (5/16 in.) Joiner
BEST ANSWER: These will work downstream but the barbs are molded into the brittle plastic so there is no way to attach those fittings.
Reviews

3.8 / 5.0
11 Reviews
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Rated 5 out of 5
Awesome!
A bit of a learning curve to use, especially knowing when the filter is clogged up (it starts leaking). Otherwise, love it!
March 30, 2022
Purchased
over 2 years ago
Rated 2 out of 5
Okay
It works, but what a crummy design.
March 13, 2021
Rated 4 out of 5
Does its job, but it is a lot of work
The filter works as advertised, I did not have much leak while the the filter is in use. I was able to push about 120 gallons of wine through it and probably lost about 1.25 gallons.

It is annoying to use this filter with 120 gallons as it takes about 20 filter changes. I did it with 10 because the wine had been racked and cold stabilized prior to use.

I had to use a decent amount of gas to push, also its easy to push with too much pressure and waste the filter.

the biggest leaks happen when you switch the pads.

I had to add hose clamps to every connection which adds to the cost of the unit.
November 17, 2020
Purchased
over 4 years ago
Rated 5 out of 5
An easy way to improve home wines.
Very easy to use. I used gravity to provide the pressure and it filtered 5 gallons of plum wine wonderfully. Will use it for the cider next. I replaced the tubes it came with with some longer silicone tubes and placed the filter on the kitchen counter between two 3-gallon carboys (one high and one low). Once the siphon started it filtered through in 10 minutes.
August 27, 2020
Purchased
over 4 years ago
Rated 3 out of 5
nipple broke
I have used this 5 times, and on the 5th time the hose appeared to pull off of he nipple when I was putting in the filters. When I looked closer it turned out that the nipple had actually broke inside the hose. Also, assembling this while keeping things sanitary is cumbersome and tricky. Otherwise, it seems to do a fair job.
January 4, 2020
Rated 5 out of 5
Good product.
. Filters works very good. Thank you.
November 9, 2019
Purchased
over 5 years ago
Rated 1 out of 5
Good product, nice clear wine now
Nice .needs a thicker o-ring
October 2, 2019
Purchased
over 5 years ago
Rated 2 out of 5
Challenging to work with
I bought this along with the same manufacturer's Super Transfer Pump to filter my beers before bottling. In addition to clarifying the beer, I use polyclar as a fining agent and you're really supposed to filter it out to ensure you don't ingest any of it. The manufacturer's description of the pump explicitly states it's designed to work with this plate filter product. But I must state up front I'm not certain if the difficulties I've had are the fault of the pump, the filter, or some combination of the two.

So first, the good: when I finally managed to get the set-up working moderately well, it did a very good job clarifying the beer. The filtered beer came out super-clear, even using the rough pads, not the polish ones.

However, getting to that point is an incredible challenge. The filter is unwieldy to set up and if you want to run sanitizer through it before transferring your beer you have to run it, disassemble the filter to add the pads, and put it back together. This means completely draining the filter of solution (because of the design), which is difficult to do. When no liquid is being pushed into the assembly it doesn't push the liquid inside out, gases just blow right through the liquid. So if you really want everything sanitized you have to run sanitzer through your pump separately from the filter, and submerge the filter in solution before assembly.

Once the filter is assembled and hooked up to the pump, there are a couple of problems. One is that the filter definitely allows air to get into your beer as it passes through. I don't know where it comes from, I have all the hoses clamped down but the filter actually aerates the beer to a fairly significant degree. But the bigger problem is that the out-flow rate doesn't match the in-flow, and as you pump beer through the filter it becomes pressurized. This leads to seepage at best, but in the worst cases resulted in the filter springing high-volume leaks and shooting streams of beer all over the place. That's a lot of wasted beer. This seems to be worse depending on how much sediment is in your beer. When filtering a simple Ordinary Bitter it never pressurized to the point of explosion, but when running a winter warmer with sediment from various spices along with the yeast and polyclar, the beer could barely make it through the filter pads and ended up everywhere but in my bottling vessel.

The last problem is lost beer. Even without leaks I lost 1.5 liters of beer on my most successful filtration due to beer that was stuck in the filter after everything had been pumped in but not all been pumped out (see above). On runs that had significant leaks springing from the filter, I lost the majority of my beer and ended up just having to dump two batches. (Incidentally, these batches were all less than 10 liters. I can't imagine trying to run a 20-liter/5 gallon batch through this device.)

Although in once instance I managed to get a batch of beer through the filter that came out nice and clear, I can't recommend this product because of the challenges of working with it and the amount of beer potentially lost. As a final note, the instruction sheet that comes with it is minimal, leaving you to figure out most of what to do yourself.
February 25, 2017
Rated 5 out of 5
Does the good right
This is a good filter. Makes your homebrew look prefensional and had a easier time finding filters of low microns the the cylender type filters.
May 26, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5
Great filter!
The best filter available for the homebrewer, IMHO!
May 28, 2013