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by dublinclontarf 3568 days ago
Large scale commercial beer producers user filtering, and in the case of lagers it doesn't matter because the beer is left to settle for quite some time.

In the UK with Real Ale, especially cask ale it's used because it's unfiltered and has lots of live yeast and sediment which needs to settle at the bottom of the cask.