I thoroughly enjoy your videos. You put a lot of effort into them and I highly appreciate your contribution to the brewing community.

Its worth pointing out as well that "good" beer should ALWAYS be poured into a glass. And when pouring you can easily control the sediment. A bottle inhibits your ability to smell the beer as you drink it, meaning you are not getting the full effect of the beer that you either paid dearly for or worked hard on. I have four different styles of glasses that I use depending on the style of beer I am drinking, a habit I've noticed most serious homebrewers pick up to some extent...

Hi Craig, Great videos! Just getting back into brewing again after a few years off. Very helpful. The Australian bottle (stubbie) you show is a Crown Lager stubbie and is a nice commercial brew but no-one I know uses them for homebrew. All my friends use Coopers stubbies, some of them from many years ago that have dropped "shoulders". Thanks again, very helpful and good to see Coopers being appreciated by people around the world.

Thank you so much for the tutorial! Much appreciated….love the product…can't wait to try this product!

Thanks for your videos and info! I bought 2 dozen of the Sed Ex catchers and they do work great. It's a bit of a workout for the fingers, but doable. I started conditoning a batch and decided to make a second batch and also wanted to use the Sed Ex caps. When the first batch was done conditioning, I placed the bottles in the fridge to cool overnight. The next day, I removed the Sed Ex cap, flipped on a Star San'd twist cap and capped it. It takes only a few seconds to twist off the Sed Ex cap and recap with a twist cap, so it doesn't lose much fizz and you don't have to pour from one bottle to another to eliminate the sediment. Check the price - buying 2 dozen was cheaper for me because we saved on shipping. I've watched many of your videos - some a few times, and learn more all the time. Thank you!

Thank you Craig! Can't wait to get started!

No knocks on you, Craig, as I would be lost without your videos, but a good heads-up and review for a great new product!!!! Whoever designed these is a genius!!! CHEERS!!!!!!

thank you craig :) this is going to be awesome. i've got my order in for 150 of these. i'm going to share them with my father-in-law. he's retired now and wants to start brewing his own; so these along with all the other gear i've got for him will complete the total package.

I can finally share my home brews without having to give the lame old sediment disclaimer to my friends! Thanks for sharing this. (and a belated thanks for all the tips I've employed from your other videos.)

Awesome product. Excellent info. Thanks for sharing!

Quite pleased I stumbled across this video today. I've decided to give it a go at brewing my own beer. I've drank home brew that friends have made before and the sediment was always a major deterrent for me. Having seen this video i'm excited now actually to get brewing and give these a try !! I was going to ask if you have a preference for beer kits or ingredients etc...but i'm sure among all of your vids you probably cover that somewhere. Going to settle in now with a beer and watch your vids. lol

Thanks for the video, it was very helpful- Your presentation seems to repeat it self some but still good

Oh boy!! Just went out and bought cases of flip top bottles.I wish I would have known one day sooner.a penny down and a day late. Thanks for sharing

CHEERS, i knew there be a product for this problem. , Man Craig than x for all the Vids man ive been brewing with mr beer and coopers since june of this year and ive got to thank you for finding a answer before i could even ask the question about sediment! and ive never had a bad batch keep showing these great vids

Awesome find!! Thanks for sharing!!

Excellent Report Craig.

In my experience and from talking with other homebrewers, I've found that secondary fermentation and finings reduce much of (but admittedly not all of) the sediment. As far as the effect of 2ndary fermentation and finings on bottle conditioned carbonation, I haven't had any issues yet. I used one tablet of Whirlfloc in my last 5 Gal. batch of summer ale and it had a great head on it! That said, this product looks cool and I'd try it!

good for mate! clearing my beer has become a problem here, thanks! Your brewhouse is so familiar...I think you'd feel well at home here! happy brewing bud!

Great video. Thank you for this!

Good Video, Fun Hobby. Hobbies are not cheap, just VERY Fulfilling.

Thank you for your effort to bring new ideas to peopel! Very interesting to watch your videos :-) Greetings!

what a great idea i am a first time brewer and find your videos really helpful

As usual great video and info , thanks for the effort posting it is very intrusting.

Thanks for the video!

Thanks mate for the info on these as i be looking into doing my own Brewing this week

craig you are like a massive book full of brewing infomation, this info you give is probably worth money! but you choose to give it for free and thats awsome of you, keep brewing man :P peace

Im from Australia and we mostly use your style of commercially produced beer bottle (with sharply tapered neck) too!

i actually got mr.beer (8 litre) kits on sale for 25$ ! so i bought 2. i didn't know anything about brewing beer, or beer kit prices. but now that i did some research and watched your videos. i should have bought the 4 that were left... oh well too late, i still have 2. its a start. great videos. i cant wait for my first 2 brews to be ready, 1 American lager and one Czech pilsener. next brew will be a coopers irish stout, my wifes favourite ! so i can get some WAF out of this video (WAF : wife approval factor)

Thanks for this.

Wow, thanks for this one Craig, I'll give this product a go!!

That's a very useful product. Very cool.

Looks like a great product. I used to make five cases 3-4 weeks and sediment was always a negative for home brew. Having HCV stops me for starting again, but thanks for your video.

thanks for this Craig!

With the amount we brew beer, i would need to buy out the company! Interesting concept, maybe good for competition brewers. But i will deal with the sediment for now until i can start kegging.

Once again you saved me. Thank you

I can't help but think how much easier it will be to clean and sanitize your bottles using these.

Love it -- My ONLY little concern is how it LOOKS.. Now lets advance and see who can come up with a similar system that will allow the sediment to leave the beer & "somehow" you twist & cap the beer?

Interesting idea but here are the problems I see. 1. Cost. This morning's exchange rate puts them over $3 USD per unit. (this includes the cost of shipping via sea) 2. Quantity They don't sell them in quantities to do a 5 gallon batch. So you're forced to buy at least 2 boxes and you're left buying more than you need. (If all you use are 12 oz bottles) 3. Bottles You're forced to invest into more bottles because they require the screw top type. This makes it impossible to cap them afterwards so you're left with the "Brodie" on the bottle. This also stops you from brewing your next batch until all the beers from the previous batch have been drank. Thank you Craig for doing the review on these and spending the money to show us this new product. I think I'll pass on this and continue to deal with the sediment as usual.

Thanks man. Exactly what we've been looking for =)

I would totally buy them-- I'm new to home brewing, so I'm just learning all the tricks, but I can see how these would be huge. I'm enjoying the hobby immensely, but I can see how the sediment would be undesireable to some. This would be an easy fix to that problem, especially for those who you want to try your brew that enjoy drinking from the bottle. I have, unfortunately, run into a few people that insist on drinking from the bottle, and they dislike the last....................

Great videos.

sediment is delicious! swirl it with the last qrtr of the beer then add to the top of the glass!Yummy

Nice review Craig!

All the way from Australia! Legends

I guess they will work great with screw on tops, I prefer to use the pry off lids. Screw top bottles are thinner and have tendencies to explode while carbonating.

FYI: This company went out of business and these are no longer available!!

I really hoped you would show us the sediments, in a small glass, also, at 9:45. Was sad when you poured it out! Just of curiosity. :) Great info! I will see if I can get these here in Scandinavia. Thanks for great videos! Cheers!

You should have a amazon store, you deserve to make money on all these items Craig.

Hi Craig, Your video brings to mind something I think I saw on How Its Made about how sediment is removed from champaign. They rest the bottles neck down so the sediment collects on the cork and then they freeze the neck, remove the cork then they put on a new cork.

another great video.

Brilliant!

A great looking idea! And it works. My only reserve is that each bottle will need a device, and according to item cost, this could be very expensive. I appreciate they are re-useable but only after the beer has been consumed. Also its restricted to threaded bottles, Crown caps in the UK seem to be the norm.

Looks like a pretty cool product--but would probably be best for home brewers that don't brew very often--aka wouldn't need a whole lot of them. I did some quick math and the cost for the 150 pack plus shipping wound up being more than it would be to buy a new kegging setup. If the devices were brought in by a distributor here in the States, and you could eliminate the $188 AUD shipping cost, then these things would rock! Thanks for sharing Craig! Great vid!

this is pretty cool. ingenious idea! soon as i can i think i will invest in some. But it will be a while before i do. great video as usual :)

Too bad the company seems to be gone, I found something new that was similar called "Sed Cap" but it's not for sale yet.

hello craig ive just started brewing my own beer my boss actually got me into it im just about to bottle my first batch . he recommended watching your videos and i have been i think you are awesome ive watched a few different videos you have . but my question is can you use those sediment catchers on plastic bottles as well . . my name is chris by the way im just using my girlfriends youtube account lol.. thank you in advance . keep up with the videos your awesome dude cheers!!

Hi Craig! I recently got a beer brewing kit for christmas and I'm currently brewing my first batch of beer right now. One of the instructions is to use gelatin finings to clear up the beer. Can you give any tips on how to use/apply it?

As good as it looks and I like the advantages I'm happy with my current setup that you presented in the 'how to' vids.. It does add to the work and the expense too:-0

This is a clever mechanical way to mock-up the freezing of champagne bottle necks. Myself, I prefer to have a first fermentation in a plastic pail with a spigot. Then siphon from the top into a Dame-Jeanne. The trick here is to give the brew another week in a second Dame-Jeanne carefully decanted. There are no sediments left whatsoever. Of course, one must top-up with good quality water in order to chase O² and keep an air-lock valve. Then, for a last carefull siphon decantation into the original pail. Add the carbonating sugar and bottle with the spigot. Quite a clear beer.

Agreed, Bottled our Pumpkin Ale after secondary and quite a bit of sediment! Good show man:D

Get two corney kegs, cold crash and filter from one keg to the other and force carbonate. Cold crashing and filtering also removes chill hase and you can fill bottles from the keg plus you don't have to wait for bottles to carbonate. They sound like a pain to clean, I like using pint bottles, you don't have so many to clean that way.

thats so awsome GRAIG. I LOVE IT. I WILL BE GETTING SOME OF THOUGTHS.

That’s awesome!

Thank you for a great channel! I'm in Norway, and I've just started brewing 6 months ago and you've tought me alot! Does this work with the Cooper plastic bottles?

I've heard finings are good for clearing up the beer too. You add them a couple days before bottling.

Thanks for the video. How long are you secondary fermenting? I've found that after 3 weeks of resting I've had great results without a significant yeast sediment, very negligible amounts. I rack a couple inches above the sediment as well so I do loose a small amount of finished beer but not enough where I'm concerned.

I hated bottling because of this as well. I finally broke down and got a keg and CO2 setup. After the beer gets carbonated up, I bottle into flip-top Grolsch style bottles. If you buy the bottles new, they cost @ $30 for a case of 12 of them. Or.... If you go to the store, a 12 pack of Grolsch beer is... $30. You get your bottles and the beer is free! lol. Next on the to-do list is getting the equipment for home canning beer.

Good day mate can you pls help me out as i would like to know how much white sugar i can put into a 23lt beer after fermentation for the secondary carbonating process , always enjoy your tips and video's , thanks Dan

Craig, thank you for all the efforts, you have no idea how you are making a difference, kindly tell me, would sedex work for champagne bottles ?

dig this video man. that's awesome.

Hi Craig, Thanks for the video, it was very educational. A while back you and a friend shared a rickards red, any chance you care to share some of your other favourite domestic brands ? cheers !

Hey Craig, I'm getting ready to start my own little home brew operation with my brother and your videos have been really helpful. I like the concept of these sediment catchers, but still want to use bottle caps. Is there a way to both use these sediment catchers and bottle caps while keeping your beer carbonated?

Thomas Cooper would be turning in his grave!! these 'Australians' must be from Melbourne or something, the rest of us ask the bar staff to roll the stubbies before we hand over any money to get that flavour up and angry.

@tim291094 as a whole it's a two part system. the yeast catching part unscrews from the valve part, once your beer clears up and the valve part, which never comes off of the bottle becomes the cap. so be careful you don't throw it in the trash like you would a normal beer cap or you'll be buying more. if however you already knew this the simple answer is yes. (that is if you don't mind losing the majority of your CO2 and possibly contaminating your beer by exposing it to the atmosphere) just recap your beers like you normally would and there you go.

Hi Craig. Great video and great products. Shame I have moved on to kegging or I would certainly buy some of those. I have one question before I go look at the site where you got them. What bottle tops do they fit onto? Are they for the twist top style only, or do they also suit the 'crown seal' or 'pop top' type bottles where you need a bottle opener to normally remove the cap? Cheers Dave

I switched to using corn sugar for priming and I no longer get sediment in the bottle. I get a "sugary film" on the bottom of the bottle which stays in there after I pour the beer out. The film easily rinses out to reuse the bottles also.

great vid

Hey craig, great vid, do you know if schloer bottles will work?

I don't mind the sediment. Beer should be drunk from glasses anyway. I like using grolsh bottles with snap caps, but thanks Craig, always enjoy your information to make brewing better.

I just bought a 6 gallon glass carboy and only have ready 4 gallons of apple wine ready to clear in the carboy. Now what can I use to fill the other 2 missing gallons so I leave little room for air?

As was mentioned below, it would be great if these worked with the Coopers PET pint bottles. Would love to get rid of sediment but I'm not prepared to replace all 72 of my plastic bottles for the glass equivalent.

Hi Craig got me some of the sediment catchers try them out next brew that's mate

Hi Craig, great video! I noticed that you screwed the sedex device onto the beer bottle. I use the crimp on bottle caps. Do these sediment catchers crimp on? I'm a bit confused.

very interesting! would these work on the coopers plastic homebrew bottles?

Let your beer clear out in secondary, rack in a keg and force carbonate will also give you the same no sediment results, i've been doing it for years that way and my beers come out crystal clear even if I pour the whole bottle in a glass.

Hi wow that is so cool can I use them on my hard cider bottles TYVM 4 your help in this matter Sal

These things look interesting, but I can't seem to find any

Craig, this Australian invention was show cased on a TV program in Australia called The Inventors An excellent idea - even though the initial investment is significant But the quality of the final beer in the bottles is worth the expense And of course the more times you use the caps the cheaper it becomes Used mine for about 13 brews so far without any problems

Great video Craig, keep up the good work! Unfortunately, the website of sedex seems to be down.

Intresting! how many times you can use them?

I used these on some recycled Budweiser bottles, and I'm getting some sediment on the shoulder and neck of the bottle. Perhaps I should use the australian type of bottle.

i think what hes saying is - transfer your beer to a secondary, then add a large batch of sugar and let it ferment. If you then siphoned it into bottles fast enough and re-sealed them, wouldnt a little carbonation remain?

Hi Craig! I was wondering how filtering a carbonated cider would fair? I've purchased a wine filter and I was wondering if the carbonation will disturb the sediment bed?

In the early 90s I was using a device called a Beerbrite cap, it looked like a long babies teat, trap the sediment in it and then bend it back on itself, trapping sediment. Leave it on, or chill the beer well and replace with a crown cap or plastic reseal. Per item cost very little. Cant find them now though, but the same device is still available for sparkling wine called Vintraps. Cheers Craig.

I've been getting in to the habit of using VB or or Bundaberg style stubbies which hold 350ml, they hold the same as a standard bottle of beer but are shorter than the long neck style you show (perfect size for a 6 pack esky) and was wondering if these are for screw top bottles only or if can you you use them on all types?

No matter what the Coopers kit instructions says - if you primary your beer for a minimum of seven days and then secondary for at least 15 days as well as you are carefull when siphoning with your auto siphon you will end up with very little sediment in the bottom of your bottles - maybe 1 or 2 millemters( for Americans 1/16 of an inch)

Hey Craig! Long time viewer. Got a question about these brodys. Wouldnt the catcher also catch my little yeasts?

Hi Craig ,I have been home brewing for 20 years , i find racking the beer after 7 days & letting it sit for another 6 days & bottling i get about 90%of the dregs out of the bottles. I find i can drink from the bottle with no problems.

hello Craig, i always watch ur videos.thks. .i am making a fruit wine..i started it everything is going good..now i am in step # 3 ..i degass my wine with a drill attachment.. it was totally degassed but when i put all my remaining packets and fill the carboy .....i mix it i see more co2 coming out ...it is already 2 days co2 and bubbles still coming out now...what u suggest me now should i keep degassing until day 30..or i should stop and garbage the whole wine? if u can help me please.thanks

Looks Like a brilliant idea,however can you fit them on plastic beer bottles and plastic pop bottles? Also are they reusable? I think you refereed to it but not sure. Last question,is the plastic they are made off durable so that it won't snap or crack somewhere when you are twisting them on or off? Thanks Craig. Cheers