Gelatine

[daveyk]

Hi yall.

Been following the kits section of the forum for a bout a year now but about to try my first extract brew.

The receipe calls for gelatine, I think this is as you move the brew into the secondry FV, I need to check but my questions was, this.....

I have a packet of dried Gelatine from the super market.... I'm presuming I need to a) steralise everything I will use, then rehydrate as per normal instructions prior to adding to the brew.

From past experience, I think I'm right in saying you need boiling water to get the stuff to disolve hence adding powder to the brew i think would be a bad idea.

Any thoughts? Thanks for the help.

Dave

[Graham]

Boiling water will knacker the gelatine. It needs to be hot, but not boiling.
Sprinkling it onto your brew won't work.

[ColinKeb]

I heat about half a pint of the beer and dissolve the gelatine in with the priming sugar, as per Jims "how to " pages