Skipping bitterness hops

[straylight77]

Has anyone tried using flavour and aroma hops additions ONLY? I'd like to get a lot of hop flavour in a pale ale and not an overpowering bitterness. The IBU will still work out to what I want for the style though. So something like:

.5 oz @ 40 min
1 oz @ 20 min
1.5 oz @ 10 min
2 oz dry hopped (~10 days)

With a hop that's 7% AA that adds up to about 37 IBU. Has anyone tried something like this before? What other effects would I be missing out on?

Furthermore, would I need to do a full 60 minute boil if I really only need 40 minutes?

 

[dave_0613]

I don't think you need to boil any longer than you want; as long as you have your hot break, you're good.

As I'm sure you know, the longer you boil, the more more you drive off hop aroma and extract bitterness..up to a point.

If you really want hop aroma, make an addition at the knockout stage, when you stop your boil and chill your wort.

 

[bosox]

I've never heard of this technique but like dave said, if it's aroma and flavor you're aiming for with a mild bitterness, just sue a low alpha hop for bittering, then use more hops for the 20min mark and flameout. Although I suppose if you use enough hops for flavoring and aroma, you'll get the little bitterness you'd need maybe?

 

[Tinga]

you may need the whole 60 min boil for boil off and driving out DMS.

 

[motobrewer]

hopbursting. what i've read, people say for the most part, it's not worth it.

 

[dcp27]

its called hopbursting, heres a whole article on it and recipe too: http://www.mrmalty.com/late_hopping.htm

if you're doing extract, you dont need a 60min boil. if its PM or AG then you do, in which case might as well hop a bit early. I have done the technique before and it was quite good.

 

[Gldnst8warrior]

One of the brews I really enjoy and constantly keep on hand goes like this:

30 min .5 oz Saaz
10 min .5 oz Saaz
2 min .5 oz Saaz

1 week 1 oz Columbus Dry hop

I came up with this recipe by brewing the same brew over and over tweeking the hop additions and other things until I was happy.

 

[straylight77]

Awesome, thanks for the info everyone! Hopbusting -- at least I now know the term to do some more searching. I think I'll try this out for one my upcoming batches.