I just picked up the ingrediants for my next brew and noticed that it had a boil of 3 gallons. My question is that I like to do full 5-6 gallon boils for a few reasons and I am curious if I deviate from this, what will be the consequences?
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batty
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much discussed and debated, but some have said smaller boils decrease your hop utilization (ie you would have less ibu's into the beer with a smaller boil). most hop calculators i've seen calculate theoretical IBUs by taking boil volume into account.
aggiejay06
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Yeah, IBUs the only discernible consequence I can think of, so if you went up in volume, you might raise the IBUs past the point you want it.
aggiejay06
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Of course you could compensate for this by adding your hops later.
I agree with others above. IBUs will increase. You might benefit from plugging your changes into a hop utilization calculator such as:
http://www.fattymattybrewing.com/ho...hp?page=tools§ion=bitterness&action=entry
Or just wing it if you don't mind the possibility of over-hopped beer.
http://www.fattymattybrewing.com/ho...hp?page=tools§ion=bitterness&action=entry
Or just wing it if you don't mind the possibility of over-hopped beer.
OP
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Thank you guys for your responses. I am going to check out the hop calculator when I get home. Thanks again
