Whirlpool Tablets- 10 tablets by LD Carlson

╔ ■ Price Point: 5/5 ╠ ■ Quality/Durability: 5/5 ╠ ■ Need: 3.5/5 ╠ ■ Recommendation/Giftable Factor: 5/5 ╠ ☼ Overall: 5/5 ╠ ►Who needs this: Making better / clearer beer ╚ ►The bottom line: The product combines with proteins and causes them to fall to the bottom of the kettle, so that you can leave them behind when you transfer the wort to the fermenter. It makes beer clearer (better than gelatin). Its worth the few dollars as you will use half a tablet per 5 gallon batch. If you want a professional looking beer this is the way to go. Whirlfloc Tablets are an enhanced blend of Irish Moss and purified carrageenan that aids in the coagulation and settling of haze-producing proteins and beta glucans. Use one tablet per 10 gallon batch (For 5 gallon batches, cut a tablet in half. Adding a whole tablet won't really gain you anything), and add it with 5 minutesremaining in the boil. Yes, 5 minutes is correct. According to the manufacturer, if Whirlfloc is in the boil for any longer than 10 minutes, the active ingredients become denatured and therefore will not do their job. Please be aware that some may get damaged in transit.

I have not done any experimentation whether these work or not. I use a fine mesh basket to hold the hops but still get a lot of sediment. These tablets are supposed to help. But normally I just wait till fermentation stops and let things settle (conical fermentator) and then rack to secondary before transfer to a keg. This gets rid of most of the trub though the first 1/2 second of beer flow from the keg has residue. I don't mind but you can always just pour 1 oz and throw it away if you don't like it.

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I used this for a 5 gallon batch (half a tablet) for a porter. If you can’t “cold crash” due to equipment limitations this helps greatly.

Great product for clearing beer, easy to use, and it was even easier to dissolve into my boiling wort (it didn't affect the flavor either). My beer was noticeably clearer with this thrown into the brew. However it is ever more effective if combined with something like Kieselsol and Chitosan (such as Super-Kleer) which you put into your brew one to two days after fermentation is done. ***As a suggestion*** If you get these whirlfloc tablets alone, they will will make the beer look awesome but if you add the other products one to two days before bottling, your beer will noticeably even better. Try these tablets out and if you like what they do, look into buying Super-Kleer (Kieselsol and Chitosan) and see what a power pack combo it is when used with these tablets. If you have questions about my review or the product, just comment on here and I'll do my best to help! Happy brewing.