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Contents:
  too  sweet (malty)? ("Darrell G. Leavitt")
  Re: Jellotin and Carbonation (Jeff Renner)


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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 07:20:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Darrell G. Leavitt" <leavitdg at plattsburgh.edu>
Subject: too  sweet (malty)?

Let's see what others say, but I would personally reduce the Vienna to
just 1/2 of what you had planned, and still use the Light Crystal.

Darrell



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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:26:53 -0400
From: Jeff Renner <jsrenner at umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Jellotin and Carbonation


On Jun 3, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Keith Christian wrote:

> Thanks Jeff,
>
> What is your method of hydrating the gelatin?  I have heard of people
> adding hot water to the gelatin and then adding some cool water before
> pouring the gelatin into the fermenter.  How long should I let it set
> before bottling or kegging?
>
> Is there a problem letting the beer set for a few days or a week with
> the gelatin on the bottom?  My beer is sitting at 60F.  Should it be
> colder?

I suspend a half packet of grocery store gelatin (for 7.75 gallons,  
this isn't a precise thing) in about a cup of cold water or beer and  
heat it in the microwave, stopping to stir occasionally.  I stop just  
before it starts to boil because that seems to produce lumps.

Then I add some cool beer to it, then stir it into the rest of the  
beer.  Often I do this at racking, so I add it to the first gallon of  
beer and let the rest of the beer stir it in as it runs into the new  
container.  If you are doing it in an opaque container, you'll just  
have to guess, but if the beer is done fermenting, a few days should  
work.

If you are racking to a carboy, you can watch it clarify from the top  
down over a period of hours.  It's fun to watch by shining a  
flashlight through it from behind.

I have let this sit in a keg until it was all gone, so I am sure that  
it's stable.  I don't think 60F would be a problem.

I don't often fine these days as gravity does a good job, but it's a  
good way of speeding things up.

Jeff

Jeff Renner in Ann Arbor, Michigan USA, jsrenner at umich.edu
"One never knows, do one?"  Fats Waller, American Musician, 1904-1943





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