Adding gelatin to clarify your beer faster

[LordEoin]

How about carbon dioxide, nitrogen and a mineral profile of the water?

[johnrm]

I think it's funny nobody spotted Garry's typo.
I'm sure vegetarian and vagitarian are polar opposites...

Jokes aside, there are 2 sides to the argument and no sense in falling out over it.

We are not commercial so labelling at our level is up to the individual brewer. Generally I am present when others are coming my beer, so will advise ingredients. The only fining I use is Irish moss, vegetarians more than likely swallow particles this while swimming.

While after the fact, I am disappointed that no competition winners posted their recipes or techniques. This should have shown the presence of offending ingredients, although might not have shown that peanut butter or duck liver pate was made in the pot immediately previously.

[mr hoppy]

There should be a requirement though. Thats the point Im trying to make. Hard to get that across though with petty arguments & sausage rolls being thrown about the place. Im not a vegan or vegetarian. It doesnt effect me one bit. I just think that as a consumer all the ingredients should be on there incl any animal parts or process used. I also think that the name & address of the manufacturer should be on there too. None of this brewed in the EU bollix or wishy washy descriptions on contract brewed stuff. Its not a lot to ask is it? And Im amazed how strongly opposed ye are to it.

In a commercial context I'd agree with you - but outside of Marks and Spencers it's just not that way with alcoholic beverages - if you feel strongly about it maybe you could get the Beoir guys to take the issue up?

[mr hoppy]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/food-babe-petitions-beer-makers-disclose-additives/story?id=24085296

[Garry]

FFS lads, I take a day off to go to a wedding and ye go mad   :

Time to get this train back on the rails. I started this thread to show people how to add gelatin to homebrewed beer. If I wrote "leave the beer in cold storage for 6 months, the end", I think a lot of people would be disappointed and wouldn't read my threads again.

Company transparency etc is off topic. But it is an interesting debate, so I'd suggest starting a new topic.

As for beer labels, it's your homebrew, put what you like on the label if you label at all. BTW hopbomb, the barcode on the label you posted is cool. Good design.

We'll have to agree to disagree on the vegicans because both sides are just repeating themselves now. Your points have been made. Move on or start a new thread.

As for juvenile behaviour, if this place starts taking itself too seriously, I'm out of here 

And on that bombshell: @johnrm, it wasn't a typo 

[mr hoppy]

http://www.newsweek.com/fish-swim-bladders-improve-beer-and-now-heal-wounds-245888

[Garry]

I see where you're going with that. Get one of those fish swim bladder dressings and use it to filter your beer. Sparkling beer straight from the primary. Genius 

[mr hoppy]

sorry to hijack the thread but while i was looking at that stuff I found this as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YzxTnA4hV0

[Garry]

That was interesting alright. Did you see the size of the fish 

[Qs]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/food-babe-petitions-beer-makers-disclose-additives/story?id=24085296

I was just reading this about her earlier http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/new-yellow-journalism/

As for the vegan thing I think people are getting a bit over heated about the whole thing. RDWHAHB 

[mr hoppy]

Nice rebuttal.

Just to be clear, I only put that up because I stumbled across it and thought it was topical to the off-topic stuff on here.

And moving even further off topic, apparently not fining at all is the new thing.

http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.ie/2014/01/not-fan.html

[LordEoin]

I like the odd murky beer, it looks 'nutritious'. Also it means i get to wind SWMBO up saying the yeast is probiotic and I should have one a day 
Wine on the other hand... I used to wait roughly a million years for them to get crystal clear on their own, but beer has made me impatient and for all the reasons on that blog a stubborn wine gets blasted with gelatin, chitosan, bentonite, or whatever works best for that particular wine.