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Isinglass is used to fine beer. It's difficult and expensive to clear beer without using it. It helps the yeast settle out better at the end of the process as in a commercial brewery you can't wait too long waiting for the beer to clear. Nearly all the cask ales in england are fined with isinglass.

The Porterhouse address this issue too. They have two beers which are not suitable for Vegetarians: Oyster stout, which has oysters in it and TSB which is a cask conditioned ale and uses Isinglass.

I think that Diagio is overestimating the use of this stuff by other brewers too, by the way. I think they are effectively going "Well, everybody does it." It it is common, particularly in real ale, but far from ubiquitous. Any beer made according to the Reinheitsgebot, for example would not contain Isinglass.

"sbillings":k6ldvrll wrote: Any beer made according to the Reinheitsgebot, for example would not contain Isinglass.[/quote:k6ldvrll]Hence someone complaining to Adeptus[/url:k6ldvrll] that English beer contained fish tails.

Who gives a toss what some whiney little vegetarian thinks? If he wants to swear off Guinness cause of the poor little fishies, then good enough for him. Not eating meat has obviously resulted in some kind of inability to think rationally. It's bad enough when the women go vegetarian, but for a bloke to do the same...

My advice would be to tell him to cop himself on and, instead of bothering Guinness with pointless and inane questions, to have have a nice big juicy steak. Everyone will feel better.

I'm off now to kill a cow.

I remember reading about Guinness using Isinglass some time ago. I would have thought that finings were not necessary where the beer is being filtered. Presumably this is why TSB is unsuitable for vegetarians while the other Porterhouse beers (exceptng Oyster Stout) are.

[quote:2fvhnex6]Who gives a toss what some whiney little vegetarian thinks? If he wants to swear off Guinness cause of the poor little fishies, then good enough for him. Not eating meat has obviously resulted in some kind of inability to think rationally. It's bad enough when the women go vegetarian, but for a bloke to do the same...

My advice would be to tell him to cop himself on and, instead of bothering Guinness with pointless and inane questions, to have have a nice big juicy steak. Everyone will feel better.

I'm off now to kill a cow.[/quote:2fvhnex6]
Don't sit on the fence POC, tell us what you really think.

"Poc":3e72x39u wrote: My advice would be to tell him to cop himself on and, instead of bothering Guinness with pointless and inane questions.[/quote:3e72x39u]

why not question them, if they buy the produce they have a right