Your boil time

Yeah, I am in the 60 minutes, adjusting to meet my numbers camp and that is mostly so I don’t need to mess with my hop schedule if I really blow it. Yesterday, the mash went great but the sparge cost me more points than I expected, so I boiled about 75-80 minutes all in, and the 20 minute whirlpool. And I nailed the gravity going into the fermenter so maybe I’m getting this math thing ;-)
 
Honestly, 60 mins is the standard for many reasons. as long as you havent gotten into your 15 min hops you can always extend the boil. I dont really know why you would do a shorter boil. the only time that i have done a shorter boil is when we were boiling off a kettle sour. It had already been boiled and we pumped it back to the kettle to boil for 30 mins to clear up and bugs before we pushed it through our hoses/heatex.
 
Bigbre04 said:
Honestly, 60 mins is the standard for many reasons. as long as you havent gotten into your 15 min hops you can always extend the boil. I dont really know why you would do a shorter boil. the only time that i have done a shorter boil is when we were boiling off a kettle sour. It had already been boiled and we pumped it back to the kettle to boil for 30 mins to clear up and bugs before we pushed it through our hoses/heatex.
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My opinion only —-> I do a shorter boil because I can perceive no difference in the finished beer in my rinky-dink brewhouse between 30 minutes and 60. I never set out to shorten my brew day, but I’m not into time wasting either. If there is a solid reason as to why I should boil for 60 minutes, I will strongly consider going back to 60, or whatever. I settled on 30 because it was a nice round number. I assume all the original home brew recipes that set the standard were written for 60 minute boils because it made everything neat and tidy, not necessarily because 60 is some magic boil number. Or am I wrong? I certainly could be.
 
Unless the recipe I am brewing calls for a longer boil, I typically stay at the 60 minute boil. I know for a fact that a few of my recipes call for a 90 minute boil but those are few and far between in my brewing sessions. I seem to remember most of the books I have read about brewing call for the 60 minute brew. Now, take what I say with a grain of salt as I haven't been super busy wiht my brewing recently.
 
Either 30 or 60 depending on style/how much time I have, never 90
 
Sunfire96 said:
Either 30 or 60 depending on style/how much time I have, never 90
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Which styles would you boil for just 30 minutes? I would be keen to give it a try.
It's not so much the time gain, but more the use of gas as we gotta buy it in bottles
 
Herm brews said:
For my past several brews, I have boiled for 75 minutes, which allows me to hit my gravity and volume targets. Over the same span, I have extended the mash from 60 to 80 minutes, again to hit pre boil gravity.
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I do mash longer than an hour, generally closer to 2 hours. Seems to help me a lot.

As far as boiling goes, I am always higher in SG due to a smallish pot. So no need to boil longer (in fact, I keep topping the pot up with hot water during the boil)
 
I just recently done a 30 minute boil. I moved and changed all hop additions to get to the estimated IBU"s. The beer came out great. Going forward, the 30 minute boil may become my go to.
 
I tried 45 minutes for yesterday's beer
 
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