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beerbaitNammo

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Alright I feel like a idiot for posting this to begin with so go easy on me... So I was brewing my 2nd batch (first is still in secodairy gonna bottle this weekend) it was a NB witbier extract kit. I got everything ready and got my full boil going on the turkey fryer add my 2 oz of 60 min hops and had the boil going for about 15 to 20 min when I started to smell something burning looked down and yup the gas hose is on fire quick turn off the gas and instantly think of what I cans do... So next idea I drag my almost full 8 gallon keggel up the deck stairs and hope my gas stove can bring it back to a boil no luck tried covering 3/4 the way to help it out and the most I can get out of it is maybe a boil every min or 2 so my buddie is off to grab me his turkey fryer the whole time he was gone (which ended up being over a hour it self I had it on high heat on the stove) once we got the other turkey fryer going I brought it back to a boil added my corriander for 10 min bitter orange peels for 1 cooled and pitched...so what will be the effects of around 2 hours on the heat??? OG was not far off kit says 1.044 I ended up 1.042 checked the gravity at day 10 and it's at 1.010-9 so there was healthy fermentation...looking back I think I would have took it off heat completely
Till the other fryer arrived...will I be able to choke this beer down??
 
i think your beer will be fine. at worse it may be higher IBU that predicted because of the extra time you boild your 2 oz of bittering hops. it'll be a unique witbier, no matter what happens, mostly because it's yours!
 
To elaborate what masonsjax said - you're beer may not have much hop character or bitterness.

The early hop additions are for bittering, which balances out the malty sweetness in your final product. From what I understand in your original post, you didn't do a full 60 minute boil but still had it on heat? If you had it on heat but it wasn't a full rolling boil, you aren't going to get as much bitterness. This is because you need a rolling boil to isomerize the hop oils in the wort to provide that bittering balance. Without the rolling boil, or not a full 60 minutes of it, your beer might be overly sweet, but beer nonetheless and still might be very good!

As far as adding hops dry (if fermentation is already started), this won't do anything but add hop aroma - NOT flavoring or bitterness - to your beer. This is called "dry hopping".
 
Thank you all for your opinions and help I'm gonna let it ride out and will let y'all know the outcome when the time comes
 
The coriander and orange peel are the predominant flavor components here…not the hops.

You added them at the right time…just long enough to derive the essence out of them, but not long enough for that essence to boil away.

Once you have hops at “near” boiling for 60 minutes, going longer will not really do anything to extract more bitterness.

You’re fine.
 
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