hop flavour

[robsan77]

upon tasting my recent brews I am left with a question to get more flavour. I know the 60min boil gets the bitterness from the hop and 15mins or less for the aroma.

May sound like a silly question but does the finish flavour come from the bittering hops? I am assuming it does but want to check before next brew.

Thanks

 

[evanvine]

The underlying bitterness and hop flavour comes from your "bittering hops", the finess and more delicate flavours come from your "aroma hops" (be guided by the forum)

 

[jonewer]

My understanding is that the longer you boil your hops, you get more a bitter taste but the boiling drives off the volatile compounds that give hops their particular floral/citrus/fruity etc.. taste and smell.

So
60 mins hops = bitter
20/30min hops = taste
>5min hops = aroma

 

[Aleman]

The convention wisdom is that you add you bittering hops at the beginning of the boil flavour toward the end and aroma at switch off . . . . Unfortunately the chemistry does not follow this argument and you can get a significant degree of bitterness while the hops are steeping the the wort above 70-80C. This is why many of us have changed to add bittering for the duration of the boil . . . flavour hops at 15 minutes-> switch off and aroma hops for a 30 minute steep at 70-80C . . . Yes the cooling is interrupted.

Of course you can work this to your advantage and make an incredibly hoppy bitter beer by adding half the IBU's for bittering at the start of the boil and the other half of the IBU at 15 minutes to go . . . You use a shed load of hops, but the flavour profile is incredible.

 

[Vossy1]

You can also add hops in the keg ie, dry hopping to increase the aroma.