Adding hops at 0 minutes. How long do i leave them?

[Jamesman]

Hi everyone, I'm brewing my first 5l AG at the weekend. It's a Belgian ipa that said I should add hops at 0 minutes. I presume this means at the end of the boil but how long do i leave them in there? I'm brewing on my stove in a 10 l pan. I was gonna add the various hops in a hop bag or should I just throw them into the wort without the bag? Thanks in advance. Cheers.

 

[StJayJay]

I tend to leave my hop bag in for the time it takes to cool the wort, but I’ve not based that on anything though. I use a bag when there are a lot of hops to cut down gunk clogging up the transfer out of the pot, and of it is only a low volume of hops, I just dump them in. I’ve read that hops in a bag can reduce the amount of bitterness and flavour in your finished beer but I don’t know if that’s right or wrong, I’ve never done any proper tests like that.

 

[Sadfield]

Throw them in and start cooling your wort down to yeast pitching temperature. Separate them from the wort when cooling is complete.

There's a technique called a hop stand or a hop steep where the hops are added, the heat is turned off (or wort cooled to around 80c) and an arbitrary amount of time is waited before cooling is started. However, if this isn't stated in the recipe assume to cool immediately.

 

[Cwrw666]

I leave mine in for half an hour then strain off the wort into the FV. I do no-chill BTW.

 

[Jamesman]

OK niceone. Thanks for the quick response everyone. Have a good evening. Cheers.

 

[foxbat]

If you have a chiller then leave them in until chilled. My view is that there's nothing I don't want from those hops and lots that I do so they stay in for the half hour it takes to be chilled then the hop bag is squeezed (with starsan'd nitrile gloved hands) and comes out before I transfer to the fermenter.

 

[Jamesman]

If you have a chiller then leave them in until chilled. My view is that there's nothing I don't want from those hops and lots that I do so they stay in for the half hour it takes to be chilled then the hop bag is squeezed (with starsan'd nitrile gloved hands) and comes out before I transfer to the fermenter.

Cheers, that makes sense. Have a good day.