by calumscott » Fri Jan 02, 2015 23:04
There's haze and there's cloudy.
The point of kettle finings is to get proteins out of the beer on account of them not being desirable to the flavour or longevity of the beer AIUI.
Now, if this beer was destined to pretty much all be processed through the brewer and at a reasonable lick then as you say, finings aren't all that important. If the beer is for sharing and showing off or keeping for a while then getting the crap flocculated out up front has to be a good thing.
For my money, if that was the only thing I was missing I wouldn't bother either and just stock up on the next order of other stuff. I'd probably consider lagering it if it wasn't just for my consumption and I had no kettle finings.
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