Finings, and the order of things

[fivetide]

Hullo again, I've got a question or two about finings in conjunction with priming and dry-hopping a kit.

I've bought some Condessa Ultra-Clear Rapid Finings. They're veggie friendly and bloody expensive at £4.75 for two kegs' worth. Mine are loose-packed, pictures later for the curious, but the box is supposed to look like this:


I know they're not necessary, but I really want my Great Eastern to be clearer than my Wherry for this summer's ale dabblers.

Anyway this is my query. The instructions say move the beer into the barrel after fermenting, then mix in sachet A into a pint of the beer and stir that into the barrel thoroughly, then do the same with sachet B, THEN prime as normal.

The thing is I would normally have added the priming sugar mixture before the beer. So do I just make the priming spraymalt up as per usual and stir this into the beer when cooled AFTER the fining procedure as it ssuggests? And won't all this stirring have any oxidising effect even if I'm careful about splashing etc..?

If this is all okay, I'm also going to dump in a muslin of hops too before sealing the thing up, gassing and venting. I'll retrieve those after a week in the warm and a week in the cool before a further two weeks in the cool.

Anyone see a problem with 'the order of things'?

Thanks very much for wading through my musings as ever, cheers.

[fivetide]

Oh forget it, I didn't get a top tap float insert for my barrel tap in my Leyland order so I can't use the barrel I spent ages sanitising anyway.

Bother...

I'll use finings in secondary bucket with a bottom tap and hope I can sort out CO2 in next week then put in a cornie and um, some pet bottles or something.

Grrrrr...

[fivetide]

Unfined beer keeps longer than fined beer.

Does it now? Huh! Thanks for that. As you'll see from my other post this all became a bit moot in the end...

[mysterio]

I have used those finings before - they're very effective.

[Chris The Fish]

just a point about your top tap,

on another thread it was mentioned that a cork is an adequate replacement to the King Keg top tap floaty bit so it could be worth a little experiment with water.

[fivetide]

Thanks, but it's the bit that allows the float and tube to connect into the back of the tap itself. You need a gromet thingummy whatsit to narrow the aperture.

[roger the dog]

Fivetide, I've just bought a replacement float assembly for my KK, you're welcome to my old 'back of tap spigot' thingy if you still want one. PM me your address.