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What are the downsides of using bentonite for producing beer?
There is use and overuse. As with all fining agents, overuse may drop too much yeast from suspension, leaving you with slower refermentation. It would be hard to totally stop refermentation, but I ...
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Can you use bentonite and Sparkaloid at the same time?
Can you use bentonite and Sparkolloid to clarify at the same time?
Bentonite first (if you aren't using pectinase) followed a week later by Sparkolloid. You would use one after the other in the same ...
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Gelatine as a beer finings (clarifier)?
I don’t have specific experience with Mangrove Jacks’ process, but, yes gelatin works very well in clearing beer. I have used gelatin for years in my beer. Although measurements vary a bit, mix ...
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Are Whirlfloc Tablets Considered Vegetarian?
Whirlfloc should be considered vegan because it's made from purified seaweed.
Whirlfloc tablets are a blend of Irish Moss and purified Kappa carrageenan that encourages the precipitation of haze ...
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Confusing article about ester production
The above answers are all quite correct. One additional comment, though:
All things being equal, the yeast generally tends to produce esters during the earlier stages of fermentation, while the re-...
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Confusing article about ester production
Ethyl acetate is created by all brewery yeast. This is a volatile ester as are all the ethyl esters.
Generally these esters are created when the yeast is stressed but remain when yeast isn't given ...
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Confusing article about ester production
Ethyl Acetate is the ester of ethanol and acetic acid and has the aroma of pear drops to solvent depending on the concentration. The taste threshold is roughly 120mg/L.
Isoamyl acetate also known as ...
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Chitosan produced from crustaceae vs fungi - one better than the other?
Interesting. I'm not that kind of scientist but I was curious so dug a little.
I found this link about the particular product- and it does have a pretty thorough technical data sheet with compound ...
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Can you use bentonite before fermentation? Conflicting sources
Yes you can, both can be done.
I usually follow instructions I am provided. I have three books on the subject:
The Encyclopedia of Home Winemaking - mentions to add it before yeast.
Techniques in ...
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Are Whirlfloc Tablets Considered Vegetarian?
I've confirmed with Google that Whirlfloc consists of "A blend of Irish Moss and purified carrageenan". It's basically seaweed. Therefore, I'm sure it's perfectly fine to use for vegetarians and ...
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How long does clarification take given a refrigerator temperature level cold crash?
Since this question involves estimation and I haven't actually run the proposed experiment myself or recorded specific data, I'll take my guess based on what I think I might know based on 20 years ...
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How long does clarification take given a refrigerator temperature level cold crash?
For cold crashing we go from tank temp to 4C in about a day, that is due to the limitations of our cooling plates and chillers. If we could drop a tank from 18-20C to 1C in 12H I would take that. ~1....
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Clarifying my beer
This has been discussed many times, take a look at:
What is chill haze and how to get rid of it
How to clear beer
How to get clearer home brewed beers
What causes cloudiness in beer
To sum up the ...
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Clarifying my beer
I went through the same trials and tribulations that you're experiencing. I have made wine for years and used Super-Klear as a fining agent, which always worked wonders in clarifying my wines. In beer,...
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What are the downsides of using bentonite for producing beer?
I have used betonite in wine, and I must tell you that I don't think I will ever use it again. Not only it clarifies, but it also stripes some color and flavor out, so be careful.
In fact, you ...
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