I usually get the corney keg cold like 31 and mix half a pack Knox with a cup of hot water to dissolve, and pouring to a gently stirred flat beer. Then i force for a week. . Does it help to shake the keg to get better fining results? Or once it is introduced it settles out and that’s that?
I’ll add my gelatin to a cup of cold water and let it bloom for 30 minutes. then I nuke it for about 45 seconds to dissolve the gelatin ( but never let it boil ).
After I hit my keg with sanitizer and co2, I’ll add the gelatin first and rack the beer on top of it. After purging the headspace, I’ll still shake the keg just a bit to make sure it’s mixed.
I’ve had great results with gelatin. Here is my first larger I’ve ever done:
My process is pretty close to darkside’s. Add Knox gelatin to room temp water in a pyrex measuring cup. Bloom for 20 minutes covered. Nuke until that first bubble breaks the surface. Add to cold beer (I add it to the primary since I ferment in a keg). After 24 hours, I rack off into a pair of serving kegs. A little sediment makes it over to the serving kegs, but not much. That gets stirred up when I move the kegs from cold storage to the serving kegerator, but it settles out pretty fast. Beer is brilliantly clear.
I just pour the gelatin mixture over the top of the carbonated beer while chilled in the keg, then gently stir the beer a few times and the beer clears nicely within a day. I recently made a German Pils that came out crystal clear using this method.
I do this but do not stir. Just add the hot mixture (btw I use some of the actual beer instead of water) and gently pour it onto the cold beer, wait a day, pour a half pint of yeast, then clear beer.