cweston
Well-Known Member
I can see two benefits...
1. In AG brewing, allows one to collect more sparge runoff and boil it down to the taregt batch size (since 90 minutes of boil = more wort evaporation than 60).
2. Increases hop utilization -- use less bittering hops.
If neither of these are really an issue, is there any benefit to the longer boil? Seems like #1 is likely only an issue for big beers.
1. In AG brewing, allows one to collect more sparge runoff and boil it down to the taregt batch size (since 90 minutes of boil = more wort evaporation than 60).
2. Increases hop utilization -- use less bittering hops.
If neither of these are really an issue, is there any benefit to the longer boil? Seems like #1 is likely only an issue for big beers.