Wort boiling time

[LovesMeSomeBeer]

I've made a few extract kits from Midwest Supplies and they've turned out better than I'd hoped for. Yesterday, for fun, I re-watched the Alton Brown Good Eats episode on brewing beer. He makes an extract brew and he brews the wort for 10 minutes. My kits have all said 60 minutes.

What does that other 50 minutes provide?

Also, he bottles after a week in a primary fermenter. I've got a batch of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone that will have been in primary 1 week tomorrow. It has reached it's FG (it only bubbled for 3 days, but was very vigorous only 3 hours into it). I had planned on this being my first batch to skip secondary.

Any thoughts only bottling just 1 week into it?

 

[david_42]

A pre-hopped (some canned) extract beer does not require boiling beyond sterilization. Also, very low IBU beers can be made this way.

 

[double_e5]

First, stop watching Alton Brown brew beer.

A 60 minute boil provides hop utilization, driving off DMS, among other things.

Can you bottle after just a week in the primary? Sure. Would I? Nope. You are still going to have green beer when they are carbed, so why not give it more time in the primary and also have a clearer, cleaner tasting beer.

 

[LovesMeSomeBeer]

Thanks, y'all! I'll keep boiling 60 minutes. And rather than bottle this weekend in the rainy weather, I think I'll make a batch of Afelwein