To Late For Gelatin?

In my haste I forgot about gelatin before force carbing one keg and putting another keg on CO2. Is it to late to take them off the gas and use the gelatin finings technique? Also if I can use the gelatin technique, can I put them right back on the gas?

 

Nope. You can add the gelatin now and let them sit.

However, be cautious. I added gelatin once to a carbed keg and it foamed up like crazy.

Just add gelatin as usual, hook it back to the gas and leave it alone for a week or so.

 

Thanks McKBrew...now I can go and try to improve some clarity.

 

Gelatin works great, imho, even after carbing. Like McKBrew said, just be ready to snap that lid on right quick after dumping in the gelatin....foam city.

 

To resurrect an old thread, I'm in the same boat, but I've also cooled (to ~ 38 degrees) my kolsch. I know gelatin + cold beer doesn't mix. Could I take the keg out of the fridge, let reach room temp, add, then chill again? Will this affect the beer adversely?

 

You can do that with no adverse effects.

 

The colder the beer the better it works! Never had a big problem with beer foaming up much... I suppose you could with very little headspace.

 

I added it to my cold/carbonated Kolsch. Little bit of foaming. Usually I add it to the keg, at room temp, when racking from the fermenter.

 

I've heard a lot of people claim that gelatin doesn't work in cold beer.

I've heard many other people claim the exact opposite (that it ONLY works in ice-cold beer).

I'm not sure who's right or wrong. Maybe it works both ways. However, when I first started using gelatin, I added it to near-freezing beer per the instructions on this site. It worked like a charm.

FWIW, I have since been adding gelatin to cold beer in the primary, and it has worked every time. I get crystal clear beer, and none of the "floating jellies" that I've heard other people claim occur with adding gelatin to cold beer. I have never tried it the other way (adding gelatin to room-temp beer), as I see no reason to when the cold-method works so well for me.

As always, YMMV.