Isinglass in a sentence as a noun

If you're vegan for moral reasons, isinglass is a problem.

In that same article isinglass is listed as a fining agent, it is collagen from fish swim bladders.

If not, the isinglass falls out and isn't actually present in the finished wine in a significant quantity.

For example, isinglass[1] and other animal products which many vegetarians would usually avoid.

For bonus points, keep track of hidden meat, like gelatin in 'yogurt' and marshmallows, isinglass in your wine, or bonechar in your sugar, or lard, oyster sauce, fish sauce or chicken broth snuck into otherwise vegetarian dishes.

Quite right, people are vegetarian for a variety of reasons, and draw the line in different place!It's worth noting that good results can be achieved with proper temperature control and irish moss, isinglass is not always needed.

There was lots of new recently about Guinness moving away from isinglass so that should be vegan friendly soon too!In wine they also use egg whites to filter it, my dad get some kind of allergic reaction from these too so we stick to vegan wines in our house.

I've only done homebrew and never used isinglass....But when I used gelatin it set the yeast sediment into a jelly-like layer at the bottom of the fermentation vessel, so when I bottled I'm not sure there was really any in the finished product.

Isinglass definitions

noun

any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity

See also: mica