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[MB331]

I've read on these forums that the lid should be off when boiling steeped wort. No?

 

[schadenfreunde]

I've read on these forums that the lid should be off when boiling steeped wort. No?

I believe mongoose means you can leave the lid on when trying to get to boiling temperatures. When you are doing the boiling, you should leave the lid off.

 

[applescrap]

Thank you. The reason the brew pot is swaying my opinion is because I do not have a pot/pan even close to suitable for brewing beer. The biggest pot I have is pretty full at a gallon and I gave that to the dog so I wouldn't have to fill her water 3x a day - lol. So yes, I do need it anyway.

I'll be totally honest, the reason I want a plastic carboy is so I can watch it. I don't know why, but I like watching the fermentation and it's a lot safer to do that than it is to pop the top of the plastic bucket and look inside! It's kind of like when you are smoking bbq meats like a pork butt or ribs and you want to see it frequently. A clear fermentation vessel calms my little OCD!

Welcome! Everything below is just my opinion. Your pot, the whole process is like a ball of string how long do you want it? Your glass stove top should work okay mine did! But the new 900 dollar ge convection pushed me outside. Could have saved that old s...t stove and brewed in garage. Anyways where was I, yes the stove glass, you need a flat bottom. I used 24 dollars 8g. tamale pot after using 4g ss pot and wanting to do 5g batches. Just saw it at walmart 20 dollars wanted to buy it just for memory. I dont like that kit my 2c.

Sorry forgot whole reason i wanted to post. As everyone knows i dont measure anything other than maybe temps and the buckets provide MASSIVE fermentation data. I can smell it first of all. Second a light shined through shows fermentation data. It is translucent then opaque then translucent again. Third you can hear it through bucket.

 

[applescrap]

Here's a couple pics of 10 gallons of lager made a couple days ago. These suckers were opaque last night, i swear. The classic lager fart smell like perfume to me. Happy brewing.

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[rjwoody]

I started out with the NB brew and share kit in February and it is a good kit to start out with but it does have some drawbacks. No hydrometer, had to buy separately. Replaced the bottling wand with a spring loaded bottling wand, the included gravity fed wand would not stop leaking. The handles on the 5 gal. pot are riveted on and leaked down the sides if the liquid level got too high in the pot. Got a Bayou Classic 10 gal pot from Lowe's for a decent price. So the NB kit is a great deal, but if I could do it again, I would have gotten a better kit minus the pot, and bought the larger pot right off the bat. Either way, good luck, and welcome to the hobby.

 

[sfish]

I've read on these forums that the lid should be off when boiling steeped wort. No?

hope this helps as to why the lid is off during boil

http://beersmith.com/blog/2016/03/0...th-dr-charlie-bamforth-beersmith-podcast-121/

 

[MB331]

Many thanks. Very informative. Just finished the video. I'll definitely be boiling more vigorously in the future. Getting to the boil the professor certainly doesn't recommend using a lid over the steeped water but implies that there wasn't much harm with the precursor and DMS. Seems to be a major problem covering the pot during the boil though.

 

[mongoose33]

Many thanks. Very informative. Just finished the video. I'll definitely be boiling more vigorously in the future. Getting to the boil the professor certainly doesn't recommend using a lid over the steeped water but implies that there wasn't much harm with the precursor and DMS. Seems to be a major problem covering the pot during the boil though.

There is no harm in using a lid to hold in heat while bringing the kettle up to boil temperature. After that, it's generally advisable to leave it off. But even that isn't certain.

Here's an exbeeriment assessing the difference between lid-on and lid-off during the boil. See what conclusion you draw:

http://brulosophy.com/2016/10/31/the-boil-lid-on-vs-lid-off-exbeeriment-results/