60 min boil necessary, with only using late hop additions

[Pyg]

I am about to make my first brew with nothing but late hop additions.
Having read many recipes that only use late hop additions I notice every recipe still calls for a 60 min boil.
I was always under the assumption that 60 min boil was to utilize 60 min hops.
Do I really need to boil for 60 min when my only hop additions are 25 mins and less?

 

[marjen]

I think it's moving towards, no it's not required. If you are only adding hops at 25 you could probably do a 25 min boil.

 

[thedon986]

Once you adjust your batch size to account for half the boil off then I would think you're fine. Don't know if I would do less than hour boil though. I've still stuck with 60min boils for my NE IPA even though it's 98% end of boil hops. Just a habit for me.

 

[RM-MN]

I've read that 90% of the bittering from the hops happens in the first 30 minutes and that seems to be working well for me as I haven't boiled for an hour for a couple years now.

 

[Schlenkerla]

I have done extremely short boils when using hopped extract. I have a recipe in my pull down that has short boil. The "Free Beer" one. I have boiled as little time as my late hop addition. Pretty much like the Mr Beer instructions; bring water to a boil, heat off, add extract, bring back to a boil for a few minutes add hops, steep and then chill with ice cold bottled water.

Note that's using hopped extracts. Read this recipe and you'll see there are some naysayers that advise against this in 2008. I have made good tasting beer with Mr Beer's methods. It wasn't anything special per say. Some people have issues with quick an easy as not possibly being good.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=278015.

In general boiling for 60 minutes or more is suggested for cleaner flavor profiles, this especially true when using pilsner malt since it has a high potential for leaving behind dimethylsufides DMS. A vegetable flavored defect.

I recently made a session IPA that I boiled 60 minutes, even though I only had a 10, 5, 0 hop addition. I had to boil out water that was part of my sparge.

Give it a rip at the shorter boil time.

 

[Schlenkerla]

In extract brewing with partial boils, one reason for doing a short boils is not trying to get a maillard reaction or the malt caramelization. If you desire a lighter colored beer, a shorter boil is better.

I have made beer with different malt additions; before 60 minutes and at 10 minutes for this very reason.