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First time using gelatin- weird stuff in bottles

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bendog15

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Hey guys- I made an all grain batch recently, chilled the wort fast with my jaded hydra immersion chiller (like 8 min). After 11 days of fermentation, I cold crashed my fermentor, dropping it to 32F. This is the first time I used gelatin. I microwaved 1/2 tsp Knox gelatin with 1/4 cup cool tap water til it reached 150F, then added it to the fermentor for 2 days.
I bottled the batch, then 2 weeks later I'm sampling the beer, and I notice that all the bottles have some weird particle matter on the bottom. It's not suspended yeast, I've seen that before. I can only guess it's either the gelatin, or I sucked up too much trub into my bottling bucket. I have never had chill haze in my bottles before. What did I do wrong here?
 
Nothing wrong. Sounds like maybe some gelatin and trub/settled yeast. Maybe you kicked it up in moving the primary to go to bottle?

Just pour carefully and you should be fine.

Next time, give the bucket some time to settle before racking and leave the trub and the last bit of beer/gelatin in the bottom of the fermenter when you rack to the bottling bucket.
 

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