Does it make much difference if I have a hard rolling boil, or a soft gentle boil? I seem to remember reading somewhere that a hard rolling boil can give slight off flavours?
But do you get a decent hot break with a gentle boil?
Hard Boil or Soft Boil
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FatGaz
Hard Boil or Soft Boil
... and I'm not talking about my eggs
Does it make much difference if I have a hard rolling boil, or a soft gentle boil? I seem to remember reading somewhere that a hard rolling boil can give slight off flavours?
But do you get a decent hot break with a gentle boil?
Does it make much difference if I have a hard rolling boil, or a soft gentle boil? I seem to remember reading somewhere that a hard rolling boil can give slight off flavours?
But do you get a decent hot break with a gentle boil?
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Wolfy
Re: Hard Boil or Soft Boil
Both a hard boil (caramelization due to the intense often localized heat and higher boil-off) and a soft boil (possible DMS issues due to the DMS precursors not being adequately boiled off) could produce unwanted off-flavours.
My understanding is that you want an active rolling boil, with the wort/hops/break turning over from the bottom to the top of the kettle, mixing things up, and with an adequate boil-off rate to drive off DMS precursors.
My kettle has 2 electric elements in it.
With both running the boil looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWqpxBhRco
Which I think is a bit too vigorous, and can also get messy as per:
So after the wort reaches boiling point, I run it with one element for a 'rolling boil' like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGX9RPce3vU
My understanding is that you want an active rolling boil, with the wort/hops/break turning over from the bottom to the top of the kettle, mixing things up, and with an adequate boil-off rate to drive off DMS precursors.
My kettle has 2 electric elements in it.
With both running the boil looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWqpxBhRco
Which I think is a bit too vigorous, and can also get messy as per:
So after the wort reaches boiling point, I run it with one element for a 'rolling boil' like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGX9RPce3vU
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Spud395
Re: Hard Boil or Soft Boil
Well the meaning of brewer is boiler.
I take that to mean we need to boil the wort, I leave nothing to chance, boil means boil in my book
I take that to mean we need to boil the wort, I leave nothing to chance, boil means boil in my book