Boiling for longer than recipe to reduce volume

[stansoid]

Hey everyone!

Quick question,

I am in the process of boiling a batch. It calls for boiling it for 60 minutes. I clearly used too much water abd I've gone about 15 minutes past the recipe boil time (to 75 min). I suspect I'll hit 80 min before I hit the correct volume to fit in my fermenter.

Will this hurt my batch?

As always, thanks for any input.

 

[snowveil]

what style of beer?

The only real risks you run are

a) increased hop utilization (IE, more bitterness, and flavor/aroma hops will fade away into bittering hops instead)

b) increased darkening of the wort (which, honestly, should be negligible)

 

[freisste]

It depends on your hops additions. If they are all times from the end, it will have very little difference, if any. You may get just a little extra darkening, but probably not much because it had too much water from the beginning.

If you added your 60 minute bittering addition at the beginning of the boil, you'll get marginally more bittering due to the increased time. However, the difference is small. This is why most bittering additions are 60 minutes. The increase in bittering is small after that point.

If you added late additions based on the start of the boil (ie, 15 minute additions 45 minutes after the start of the boil and the bittering addition) you will get drastically different results.

Edit: I should clarify. The results will be drastically different if there are a lot of hops. If your recipe has lots of late hops (west coast IPA, for example) the beer will be very different from the intent. If there are few or no late hops, it may not make much difference.

 

[stansoid]

Hey, thanks for the quick reply.. its still boiling

Its a beer called S'more beer which I got the recipe from the brooklyn brewshop beer making book.

Its currently floating at around 1.056 and I need it to get to 1.064 and drop a bit of water. I'll just let it boil and ride it out.

EDIT: Hops at 60 min, 30 min and 5 min (small amount at 5 min). Likely it won't be as intended.

Thanks for the input!

 

[stansoid]

80 minutes and done at the right volume. Wort still tastes pretty good. A bit more bitter than intended, but still nice. OG at 1.067, which was the target number.

Hopefully it doesn't end up too bitter.