Clearing your beer .. Kettle Finings

[Partridge9]

Just curious to see what others use ..

[CARA]

There's no "other" option

[biertourist]

I'd love to see a similar poll for post-fermentation finings...

I just started using gelatin plus dry ice and it's AMAZING for non-flocculant yeast strains. *Kolsh*

I just buy a 3lb block of dry ice ($3 at the grocery store for me) and put it in a bath towel and wrap the bath towel around my corney keg in my kegerator.

It gets the beer cold, unlike my crappy Chinese kegerator AND the super fast drop in temperature shocks the yeast and makes them drop very quickly.
-I held my kolsch at 2C for 2 1/2 weeks and it BARELY started to clarify; I then added gelatin for 24 hours and saw almost NO difference; then I added the dry ice for 2 hours and I had CRYSTAL clear beer.


Adam

[Damien M]

There's no "other" option
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Dec. Surely you mean Brens Magic Dust.....

[Hop Bomb]

I'd love to see a similar poll for post-fermentation finings...

I just started using gelatin plus dry ice and it's AMAZING for non-flocculant yeast strains. *Kolsh*

I just buy a 3lb block of dry ice ($3 at the grocery store for me) and put it in a bath towel and wrap the bath towel around my corney keg in my kegerator.

It gets the beer cold, unlike my crappy Chinese kegerator AND the super fast drop in temperature shocks the yeast and makes them drop very quickly.
-I held my kolsch at 2C for 2 1/2 weeks and it BARELY started to clarify; I then added gelatin for 24 hours and saw almost NO difference; then I added the dry ice for 2 hours and I had CRYSTAL clear beer.


Adam

Could it be a case that if you pulled a bigger sample before using the dry ice you might have pulled out all the yeast that dropped to the bottom of the corny & hit clear beer?

[Partridge9]

There's no "other" option

I have added an other !

[CARA]

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There's no "other" option
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Dec. Surely you mean Brens Magic Dust.....
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[Partridge9]

I thought I'd get shot for putting down Brens Magic Dust !

[biertourist]

I'd love to see a similar poll for post-fermentation finings...

I just started using gelatin plus dry ice and it's AMAZING for non-flocculant yeast strains. *Kolsh*

I just buy a 3lb block of dry ice ($3 at the grocery store for me) and put it in a bath towel and wrap the bath towel around my corney keg in my kegerator.

It gets the beer cold, unlike my crappy Chinese kegerator AND the super fast drop in temperature shocks the yeast and makes them drop very quickly.
-I held my kolsch at 2C for 2 1/2 weeks and it BARELY started to clarify; I then added gelatin for 24 hours and saw almost NO difference; then I added the dry ice for 2 hours and I had CRYSTAL clear beer.


Adam

Could it be a case that if you pulled a bigger sample before using the dry ice you might have pulled out all the yeast that dropped to the bottom of the corny & hit clear beer?

No, I had been drinking plenty of the hazy kolsch before the dry ice treatment.  ; )

[brenmurph]

Ssshhhhhh.... Everyone will want some dust :-)

[imark]

Could you just add dry ice directly? It's just co2.

[biertourist]

Could you just add dry ice directly? It's just co2.

Well it is and it isn't just CO2... The CO2 is pulled from the air and there's lot of other things in the air so there's lots of "impurities" that can make it into the CO2.

There IS food grade dry ice...

Plus if you add it directly to a corney keg, I'd be afraid that your CO2 pressure would go through the roof and you could explode a keg, or at least over carb your beer.


Adam

[Partridge9]

Interesting feedback - didnt realise there was so much irish moss being used !!

[Will_D]

Could you just add dry ice directly? It's just co2.

Well it is and it isn't just CO2... The CO2 is pulled from the air and there's lot of other things in the air so there's lots of "impurities" that can make it into the CO2.

Air only contains 0.04% CO2 so its not extracted from air

In the UK there was a company called Distillers CO2 who used to pump off the CO2 from the whiskey and other fermentaion industrys.

Is is also a by product in the industrial production of Ammonia (this require on site Hydrogen production which yields the CO2 as its by product).

[johnrm]

Interesting feedback - didnt realise there was so much irish moss being used !!

Its natural and its cheap (Free from the local beach!)