Finings

[garciaBernal]

Found this in Supervalu. Will it work the same?

[Leann ull]

leave it 1/3 up suspended in air off the side wall, not in cups of water or styrofoamed to the side of the fv either.

[Motorbikeman]

tesco has reduced youngs beer finings to 37 cent per dose. Its hard to find any real info on it other than its made from the small shell fish.  Anyone have any experience  with it?

[Leann ull]

If a pic tells a thousand words here's the pic

[imark]

leave it 1/3 up suspended in air off the side wall, not in cups of water or styrofoamed to the side of the fv either.

Why not stuck to the fv?

[Leann ull]

To avoid ramping lag.
Plastic fermenters act as very good insulators, styrofoam makes it worse, unless of course you are using glass or stainless fermenters.
Best location is always in a thermowell with measuring tip 1/3 way down the liquid being measured.

[imark]

I use glass but don't have a thermowell.

[Drum]

If a pic tells a thousand words here's the pic

That looks pretty good to me!  How's it tasting CH?

Edit;   Never mind, I just saw the other thread. 

[garciaBernal]

So what can we use post fermentation as a fining agent that doesn't contain animals? I'm a meat eater myself but don't fancy clearing my beer with gelatin out of consideration for my friends/consumers! 

[cruiscinlan]

You can pump it through a 1 micron filter or hit it with a blast of cold for a week and transfer to another container/bottle.

[molc]

Devils advocate point: A lot of breweries use isinglass, which is fish scales no? They don't declare there are animal products I'm their beer. Do we need to worry about even telling people there is a trace amount of gelatin in our beer?

[imark]

I think isinglass is made from swimbladder. The logic for not declaring it is because it has dropped out prior to bottling.
It's more of a religious/philosophical debate. Personally, I use gelatine and if people don't want to drink it I'm OK with that.

[Pheeel]

If you're veggie or vegan having had an animal product used in the making of the product is sufficient for them not to drink it, dropped out or not. So best to mention it!

[Leann ull]

I don't know any full blown vegetarians.
I had a summer job as a student in a salad prepping factory and if you saw some of the meat that salad got exposed to, you'd happily take a risk on 1ppm gelatin

[BrewDorg]

My sister is vegan so she doesn't get to drink my clear beers. She uses this website to check if a drink has had animal products used in production. http://www.barnivore.com/beer?region=Ireland