I guess the best way to describe my attitude towards pilsner malt recently is: wary or afraid. Everyone says that you HAVE to boil it for 90 minutes in order to drive off DMS. As such, I have been just using american 2-row instead of pilsner malt (with decent results), but it seems to be cramping my creativity.
Anyways, I was thinking about it earlier today and I get a ton of boil-off with my beers, I boil off around 2 Gallons per hour (26%). With this amount of boil-off, do I really need to worry about DMS? Unfortunately, my wort collection method doesn't allow me to collect more wort than the 7.5 Gallons I already collect, so boiling for 90 minutes is rather unfeasible and I want to be able to brew worry free with pilsner.
So what are peoples thoughts? Is DMS a red herring? Could I get away with a 60 minute boil with my setup? Should I just stay with American 2-row whenever anything calls for pilsner malt?
Anyways, I was thinking about it earlier today and I get a ton of boil-off with my beers, I boil off around 2 Gallons per hour (26%). With this amount of boil-off, do I really need to worry about DMS? Unfortunately, my wort collection method doesn't allow me to collect more wort than the 7.5 Gallons I already collect, so boiling for 90 minutes is rather unfeasible and I want to be able to brew worry free with pilsner.
So what are peoples thoughts? Is DMS a red herring? Could I get away with a 60 minute boil with my setup? Should I just stay with American 2-row whenever anything calls for pilsner malt?