How long hops need to be in wort

[iijakii]

Possibly a weird question, but how long do hops need to stay in the wort to give all of their goodness? Lets say you're doing 5 minute additions for aroma and some flavor, would it change greatly if you took them out, for example, at 3 minutes?

 

[JonK331]

That would be roughly the same as adding them at two minutes except that a small amount of the flavor/aroma would boil off. Why would you take them out?

 

[iijakii]

That would be roughly the same as adding them at two minutes except that a small amount of the flavor/aroma would boil off. Why would you take them out?

You actually phrased that better than I did

Would there be a big difference between a 2 min and a 5 min addition?

 

[djinn88]

Yeah, as stated above, just add them later. Don't take them out. If you really want to take them out then wait until you are pouring your wort into the carboy and strain them out. It would be difficult, at best, to take them out without taking other hops out indiscriminately.

 

[MBasile]

After seeing this graph, I now do my APA/IPA additions at 60, 20, 7, and 0 minutes.

 

[B-Hoppy]

Mbasile,

just wondering where the graph came from?

 

[david_42]

Not that stupid graph again! I keep hoping we've killed it off, but it keeps popping up. All three lines on the graph are wrong. Bittering curves look like this: