1 minute boil?
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1 minute boil?
Something I've started to wonder - when a recipe states a 1-minute boil for the aroma hops, what does this mean? Do you put the hops in, wait one minute, and pull them out again (!@#$..forgot to use a bag!)?
Or, do you leave them in until you have cooled and run the wort off into the fermenter? This would mean a variable time in the wort, and therefore variable aroma contribution?
Or, do you leave them in until you have cooled and run the wort off into the fermenter? This would mean a variable time in the wort, and therefore variable aroma contribution?
- Dane
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variability
I have gathered from most recipes that the aroma
hops are left in until the wort is cooled and
strained into the fermenter. And you would be
right, I suppose, that it would mean variable
aroma, depending on how long it takes to cool your
wort. I guess that is one of the joys of being
a homebrewer. Each batch is never exactly the
same.
I use an imersion (is that spelled correctly?)
chiller, and reviewing my notes I see that it
took 29 minutes to cool one time and 18 another.
Those 11 minutes could make a difference I suppose.
Perhaps if you could accurately measure the
temperature of the wort and the cooling water
(if a chiller is used) you could achieve the same
cooling rate each time. But then would the temperature
of the room make a difference. If the heater
kicked on in the kitchen while cooling it could
change things.
I understand your question, but everything I have
found says that homebrewing is not an exact science.
Being a student of the humanities and not the
sciences, I like that.
I hope you find a better answer than I can give.
I am rather inexperienced and have to deduce
conclusions from my various readings.
hops are left in until the wort is cooled and
strained into the fermenter. And you would be
right, I suppose, that it would mean variable
aroma, depending on how long it takes to cool your
wort. I guess that is one of the joys of being
a homebrewer. Each batch is never exactly the
same.
I use an imersion (is that spelled correctly?)
chiller, and reviewing my notes I see that it
took 29 minutes to cool one time and 18 another.
Those 11 minutes could make a difference I suppose.
Perhaps if you could accurately measure the
temperature of the wort and the cooling water
(if a chiller is used) you could achieve the same
cooling rate each time. But then would the temperature
of the room make a difference. If the heater
kicked on in the kitchen while cooling it could
change things.
I understand your question, but everything I have
found says that homebrewing is not an exact science.
Being a student of the humanities and not the
sciences, I like that.
I hope you find a better answer than I can give.
I am rather inexperienced and have to deduce
conclusions from my various readings.
- Okami
- Light Lager

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At the end
When you ad your aroma hops, they are added at the very end of the boil. I like to add them right when I turn off the heat; that way I know I
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