MattStanley
New Member
New to the forum and yet to brew my first extract batch (tomorrow night is looking good). Trying to iron out a few questions in my head before I get to the actual process.
1) I have seen 'adding extract late in a boil' mentioned here. Is there a consensus opinion on this, and how much of your extract should you wait to add?
2) For now I am going to go with a partial boil (plan on moving to full once I can get some different equipment). Thinking that the IPA I am going to brew shouldn't be light on IBUs and have read that this would be the case for partial boils (2.5 gal. in my case). Would boiling some of the bittering hops into the water that I will eventually use to bring the volume in my fermenter up to 5 gal. do anything to help this? I saw this mentioned in passing in a different thread.
Thanks in advance; looking forward to joining the club...
1) I have seen 'adding extract late in a boil' mentioned here. Is there a consensus opinion on this, and how much of your extract should you wait to add?
2) For now I am going to go with a partial boil (plan on moving to full once I can get some different equipment). Thinking that the IPA I am going to brew shouldn't be light on IBUs and have read that this would be the case for partial boils (2.5 gal. in my case). Would boiling some of the bittering hops into the water that I will eventually use to bring the volume in my fermenter up to 5 gal. do anything to help this? I saw this mentioned in passing in a different thread.
Thanks in advance; looking forward to joining the club...