No boil beer

[BrewingTravisty]

Can there still be issues with DMS on no boil beers with "modern" pilsner malts? I have repeatedly read that the longer boil times (90 instead of 6 minutes) suggested for driving off DMS are no longer required with newer Pils. Could the same be said about no boil at all? Or there would be significantly lower levels of DMS anyways.

I can't speak from experience, but from what I've read DMS doesn't form until about 180°f. So I guess if you do a no boil you just have to decide which you'd rather risk, DMS or unwanted bugs. It sounds like Chefchris has had pretty good experience with bringing to a short boil so I'm thinking that DMS isn't as big of a problem as people think.

Personally I'm probably going to do fully no boil, I'll mash and sparge and do a mash hop. It'll be a few months before I can update on how it turns out, to give the Brett time to develop.

 

[chefchris]

I can't speak from experience, but from what I've read DMS doesn't form until about 180°f. So I guess if you do a no boil you just have to decide which you'd rather risk, DMS or unwanted bugs. It sounds like Chefchris has had pretty good experience with bringing to a short boil so I'm thinking that DMS isn't as big of a problem as people think.

Personally I'm probably going to do fully no boil, I'll mash and sparge and do a mash hop. It'll be a few months before I can update on how it turns out, to give the Brett time to develop.

It has a chance of getting pretty funky if you don't bring up to temp after the sparge. I would try really hard to keep oxygen out if you go with this method.

 

[BrewingTravisty]

It has a chance of getting pretty funky if you don't bring up to temp after the sparge. I would try really hard to keep oxygen out if you go with this method.

I'll probably take your advice then. Since you've done it so many times. I just wanna make sure it turns out good, I'm hoping to do it this weekend. I was gonna try to do it this past weekend but forgot how much I had going on lol hopefully next weekend is more relaxed.

 

[Brizzo]

My no boil I brewed a week ago, I pitched with ecy bug county and the krausen came and went within a day. A pellicle has formed and I guess we will see. I think the og was only around 1.030 since it was third runnings from a Vienna lager. Not sure if it will turn out well enough to drink straight or if I will end up using this as a blend to a couple other Sours I have in the pipeline