boiling extract

[Cadbury]

G'day men,
If my pot is big enough, is it alright to boil the full amount instead of adding the water at the end into the fermenter?
Cadbury

[Trough Lolly]

Of course! If you have a large kettle, you can do a full volume boil and add hops for bittering, flavour and aroma during the boil. I'll assume that you're not boiling a kit and are making a true extract beer - if you are using a kit, you'll need to add some hops late in the boil to compensate for the aroma compounds that boiling will remove from the kit concentrate. This is why I always suggest adding the kit after flameout to preserve the kit's aroma properties.

Just make sure that you have a good method of cleanly cooling the boiled wort because once the boil is over, the wort is vulnerable to infection. I won't launch into an argument about storing boiling hot wort but the sooner you can bring the wort down to yeast pitching temps, the better.

Cheers,
TL

[Cadbury]

Thanks for that, I'll get started.

[billybushcook]

Just make sure that you have a good method of cleanly cooling the boiled wort because once the boil is over, the wort is vulnerable to infection.

Cheers,
TL

The very reason why I/some of us have the chiller & temp probe in the kettle during the boil.



No Temp probe in pic, the string is the Hop bag which I no longer use with flowers.



Cheers, Mick,