Using gelatin in kegs

[Suthrncomfrt1884]

I recently racked a Pliny clone to one of my kegs. I cold conditioned it for a week at 36F before racking. I warmed the beer back up to 68 before racking also. Now, after a week in the keg, I'm still getting a lot of hops when I pull a pint.

I'm wanting to bottle from the keg in a few days. Can I add gelatin directly to the keg to clear it? Is there something else that may work better?

I was a little unprepared when I dry hopped and just added all the hops directly to primary without a bag or any filtering method. I thought the cold conditioning would help, but it doesn't seem to have done much.

 

[jaja]

Just heat up some water hot but not boiling, add a spoonful of gelatine, stir, let it sit 5-10 to congeal covered and then dump it into the cold keg. Wait 2 days and pour off the trub it creates. Easy.

 

[GNBrews]

Either way, you're gonna have a few pints that will have hops in them.

 

[samc]

Never used Gelatin, are you sure that it will bind to hops? I'd want to make sure before bothering as I thought that it removed yeast & proteins.

 

[wilserbrewer]

I think time and drinking a few pints will rid the hops...not sure I would bother w/ gelatin at this point...perhaps a few hop specs in the glass is a tribute...kinda like a piece o lobster shell in paella, or a piece of shell in clam chowder.

 

[Suthrncomfrt1884]

Personally, I could drink the hops that show up, but it's not very visually enticing. Half of the batch is going to a friend, so I don't want him having to deal with it.

 

[Suthrncomfrt1884]

Just heat up some water hot but not boiling, add a spoonful of gelatine, stir, let it sit 5-10 to congeal covered and then dump it into the cold keg. Wait 2 days and pour off the trub it creates. Easy.

Are you saying I'll have to rack to another keg? Or will the trub that settles come out in the first few pints?

 

[jaja]

No you pour a pint or two thats cloudy and it will clear up after that.