Oh s***

[Dennis King]

Forgot to add copper finnings when brewing today. In 30 years of brewing its the first time it`s happend [its my age]. Have read before of this happening and assume it will clear eventually, but I could not beleve how much more cloudy the wort was. Copper finning seem to have more effect than I realised.

[Stonechat]

Forgot to add copper finnings when brewing today. In 30 years of brewing its the first time it`s happend [its my age]. Have read before of this happening and assume it will clear eventually, but I could not beleve how much more cloudy the wort was. Copper finning seem to have more effect than I realised.

Don't worry, it will still be very drinkable. The action of the yeast on it and the maturation time before drinking will clear it up. It won't win any prizes for clarity though, but will taste OK. I did two identical 25litre brews and left the Irish Moss out of one deliberately to find out what would happen.
Drank the last of the one without Irish Moss on Friday night and would say it was slightly sweeter and had more mouth feel than the other one.

On the "age-related" front, I find it helps to get the copper finings out next to the late hops, so they are there in sight and hard to forget

[Dennis King]

On the "age-related" front, I find it helps to get the copper finings out next to the late hops, so they are there in sight and hard to forget

Thats what I normally do, still dont know how I forgot.

[Matt]

Reassuring to know that veteran brewers still make cock ups like the rest of us

[Danny]

Portofloc or Irish Moss ? I'm using up Portofloc at the mo but have used irish moss in the past and think it may be better ...
Discuss

[edit1now]

I've only just tried Protofloc for the first time yesterday. I think it's just ground-up Irish Moss with some bicarb to make the tablet fizz and disperse in the (slightly acid) hot wort. Irish Moss seems to be seaweed

[Iank]

Forgot to add copper finnings when brewing today. In 30 years of brewing its the first time it`s happend [its my age]. Have read before of this happening and assume it will clear eventually, but I could not beleve how much more cloudy the wort was. Copper finning seem to have more effect than I realised.

My second attempt at AG, Loughton Pride was without copper finings, because I forgot. Whilst I sincerely hope not to do it again, it was by no means a disaster. The beer still tastes great (after 2 months in the bottle), and although it isn't crystal clear, it's fine really.
My main problem is that because of the forgotten copper finings I used finings when bottling, thus causing the yeast layer in the bottle to be very unstable