Late Hops

[dba27]

I was reading GW's book regarding late hops. I seems that you introduce late hops once the wort has cooled to 80 C, my question is how lond do you leave them before draining the boiler?

Regards

dba27

[Scooby]

I leave mine for 15-20mins then carry on cooling.

[mysterio]

I do the same as Scooby

[leigh1919]

Ive left hops in for 30 minutes.

[EccentricDyslexic]

Do you chaps put the lid on the boiler at this stage to help prevent evaporative loss of essential oils from the late hops? Or is this not an issue?



steve

[Scooby]

I leave the lid off for the boil and cooling to 80c then the lid is on, more for protection than any other loss. There seems to be a lot of flying things about with this warm weather.

[casbar]

Lid off to cool to 80 degs, lid on for late hops for 30 mins, then continue to cool to 30 degs before draining to fermentation vessel and pitching yeast