Month: April 2013

Filtration of Beer

In Australia and most of the western world the majority of beer has beer filtered for many decades to a crystal clear consistency. The consumer’s expectation was that cloudy beer was thought to be inferior in quality and so demanded clear beer.

However, with the advent of craft beers things are changing. There appears to be a movement to the exact opposite where beers are not filtered at all.

One of the driving forces to this is that it is believed that yeasty beer is far more flavoursome and natural. But is this all that is to the story?

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Filtration of beer has had the big stick in recent times. Now, a new study has show that there is twice the level of Arsenic in filtered beer than water. We’ll look at the issue of filtration here and try to piece it all together.

High Levels of Arsenic in Beer

Beer enthusiasts may be alarmed at hearing that crystal clear beer filtered using the most common method worldwide may have higher than normal arsenic levels.

A recent German study showed that many filtered beers have levels of arsenic twice that of drinking water.

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