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
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish () is a fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in autumn 1833 and it was first published in the literary magazine "Biblioteka dlya chteniya" in May 1835. The tale is about a fisherman who manages to catch a "Golden Fish" which promises to fulfill any wish of his in exchange for its freedom. The storyline is similar to the Russian fairy tale "The Greedy Old Wife" (according to Vladimir Propp) and the Brothers Grimm's tale "The Fisherman and His