No boil brewing.......

[South Coast Brewer]

Just about to try my first no boil brew, a pineapple and mango no boil recipe tweaked to my liking from the David heath original and scaled to my GF 30. Anyone else here a regular no boil brewer? I like the idea of using this method (if it turns out well of course........) to squeeze in a brew day when time may be limited. Looking forward to using omega hot head yeast again as well, always liked the results from this strain.

 

[MrRook]

I do some no-boil extract brewing with good results.

 

[Zephyr259]

I did a no-boil wheat last summer the fermented with Voss, it was really good and is still decent 6 months later even though the hops have faded. I'll probably do this again over the summer when it's too hot and there's too many wasps about to brew comfortably.

 

[foxy]

How do you utilise the hops in a no boil? Extract?

 

[MyQul]

@BeerCat is the forum no-boil-meister. I think he does all his brews no boil and has done for a while

 

[Richie_asg1]

Don't you get undesirables with not boiling the wort? Like DMS?

Also does spraymalt need to be boiled, as I haven't boiled extract kits, just followed instructions, and beer enhancers contain it?

 

[MrRook]

How do you utilise the hops in a no boil? Extract?

Hop isomerization starts around 185f (85c) so you can get bitterness without boiling.

 

[MrRook]

Don't you get undesirables with not boiling the wort? Like DMS?

Also does spraymalt need to be boiled, as I haven't boiled extract kits, just followed instructions, and beer enhancers contain it?

Extract is boiled in the manufacturing of it which is why "no-boil" kits work and DMS is not an issue.

 

[phildo79]

Never heard of no boil before. Would be interested to hear some of the results peeps have had. I am mainly a 20/30 min boil guy. As @MrRook says, bitterness starts extracting before boiling temp and continues to be extracted after flame out, unless you are seriously chilling your brew almost immediately. I find the 60 min boil unnecessary for the most part. I tend to boil closer to the 40/45 min mark if I am going for a beer with a high IBU content but when I say high, I am talking 70+.

 

[Zephyr259]

How do you utilise the hops in a no boil? Extract?

I boiled 1L of water on the stove for 20 minutes with enough hops for the IBU I wanted. Then I added this after sparge along with the rest of the hops and held at 80c for a while (away from notes) to pasteurise and let the hops soak.

 

[MrRook]

I boiled 1L of water on the stove for 20 minutes with enough hops for the IBU I wanted. Then I added this after sparge along with the rest of the hops and held at 80c for a while (away from notes) to pasteurise and let the hops soak.

So, technically not no-boil, just no wort boil.

 

[Zephyr259]

So, technically not no-boil, just no wort boil.

True enough I guess. But the wort not being boiled is the important bit for the beer. Also it's a lot easier (and less steamy) to boil 1L on the cooker for 20 mins than booking 20-28L for an hour.

The basic brewing radio guys do a hop sampler every so often, it's extract and they do boil but all the hops are added post boil and they get plenty bitterness, I want to say they cool to 80c before adding them which would be the same as the no boil steep.

 

[foxy]

Found this for those who wish to learn more, rather than sticking red hot needles in their eyes. Think I may give it a go, commercial breweries dilute and add the hops post fermentation, just have to work out how much extract to add. 15 mins held at 85 C will give a beer with a 12 week shelf life, more than enough.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/j.2050-0416.1972.tb06397.x

 

[Richie_asg1]

Just watched this on no boil -
Think I may try it if we get a hot summer.
Interesting he used kveik yeast.- and screamed at it. Apparently that is a thing.

In the pdf foxy linked to it was saying kettle hop addition would be better at 10% of normal rate for bittering, so maybe leaving more for dry hopping later?

Learning new stuff all the time here. Thanks.

 

[samale]

I have an American wheat conditioning in the bottles which is no boil.
I heated the wort to 80 degrees and banged in 100g of hops and left to cool then dry hopped with an 150g of hops.
Hopefully I will be tasting it in a week or so.

 

[Stephenj]

I recently did a scaled down to 12 litres totally tropical (James Morton) no boil. Basically followed @BeerCat thread and more or less same way as @Zephyr259 mentions above. No issues with the beer, tastes great, everything went well other than the og was way down on what I'd calculated, think about 8 points from target. To be honest, the beer tastes great so not too bothered about the ABV.

 

[South Coast Brewer]

How do you utilise the hops in a no boil? Extract?

planning to make a hop tea and add to the keg before my closed transfer, also dry hop for aroma. Ive also got fruit going into the FV at 4 days so there`s alot going on! Cant wait to try it!

 

[South Coast Brewer]

Don't you get undesirables with not boiling the wort? Like DMS?

Also does spraymalt need to be boiled, as I haven't boiled extract kits, just followed instructions, and beer enhancers contain it?

DMS becomes volatile and will start to evaporate off once the wort reaches 75 degrees +, planning on keeping the lid off during the process allowing maximum surface area exposed to help with this. It`s an all grain recipe so not sure about extract i`m afraid.

 

[An Ankoù]

I did a no boil wheat in the summer and I was disappointed. Found the rest of it quite recently and it's improved immensely.

 

[samale]

Does no boil beer need longer conditioning time