Vegetarianism and beer a yeasty flavour. Finings are used to clear the beer of yeast – there are a variety of agents used as finings, including silicon dioxide, gelatin, polyclar, and isinglass. Isinglass is the most common fining used to clear cask ale. Isinglass is produced from the swim bladders of fish, usually sturgeon, though also those in the polynemidae, sciaenidae and siluridae families; as it is an animal product, cask ale cleared with isinglass is not considered vegetarian. A brewer may also use some form of animal product in the later stages of beer processing, such as glycerol monostearate, which is used
Trub (brewing) fermentation. It is composed mainly of heavy fats, coagulated proteins, and (when in fermenter) inactive yeast. The term has its origins in the German word "trübe" (also "trüb"), which means "cloudy", via the brewing and winemaking terms "Trubstoff" ("cloudy" + "material") and "Weintrub" ("wine" + "cloudy"). Trub (brewing) In the process of brewing beer, trub is the term used for the material, along with hop debris, left in the whirlpool or hopback after the wort has been boiled then transferred and cooled. Brewers generally prefer that the bulk of the trub be left in the whirlpool rather than stay in