Do You Boil Your Wort Lid On Or Lid Off The Kettle

[Pumpy]

Do you boil wort with

1) lid on

2) lid off

3) lid slightly off

On you get a good boil and save power

Off lets the toxins out

Slightly off the best of both worlds

What do you do ???


Pumpy

 

[sluggerdog]

Lid off the whole time.

When I had a crappy burner I used to keep the lid on until it got going but now with the nasa I don't have to worry about it.

 

[Sloth]

Being an extract brewer at the moment, and being forced to use the electric stove top, I get the boil going with the lid on and then go for the slightly off option. If I remove the lid entirely, boil dies down.

Money permitting will get nasa burner. The joys of being a poor student.

Sloth.

 

[browndog]

Lid off all the way, how else will your get your gravity up if the steam is condensing and dripping back into the kettle.

viva la lid off

Browndog

 

[Pumpy]

I am a 'lid on' to get to the boil .

Lid slightly of for the first half hour

Lid off from first hop addittions as I have a 'Hop sock'( the way too go ) and cant put the lid back on .



Pumpy

 

[AndrewQLD]

Lid off from start to finish and full flame , gives me 6lt/hr boil off consistently.

Cheers
Andrew

 

[stephen]

Lid on until boil starts then lid of until the end when I put the lid back on for part of the whirpooling.

I only have a three ring burner with a standard reg.

Steve

 

[JSB]

Lid off

Cheers
JSB

 

[razz]

Lid off and boil the bejesus out of it !

 

[Stuster]

Lid off.

Where's the poll, Pumpy?

 

[Barry]

Lid on till boil then lid off.

 

[nifty]

Lid off, with a good rolling boil.

 

[Stoodoo]

I boil with the lid off, though since I have no chiller, I sit a lid on at flameout, to keep out all the nasties, until the next morning when it has cooled down enough for me to siphon it into the fermentor.

Cheers

 

[Pumpy]

Lid off.

Where's the poll, Pumpy?

Yeah , Sorry Stuster ,

I left the computer and the missus was so sick of me on the computer she put the AHB site on 'Parental Control '

It took me all afternoon to work out how to disable it !!!


Pumpy

 

[Millet Man]

Lid slightly off. I use a 2400W element and with the lid off it's a bit weak (in winter), slightly off it's quite vigorous and evaporation rate is the same at 3lt/hr. In summer it's strong enough with the lid off (less heat loss).

Cheers, Andrew.

 

[Stuster]

I left the computer and the missus was so sick of me on the computer she put the AHB site on 'Parental Control '

It took me all afternoon to work out how to disable it !!!

:lol: :lol:

That's a classic. Unfortunately, I was just laughing so hard I had to tell my wife this story.

 

[Kai]

On you get a good boil and save power

Off lets the toxins out

Toxins, eh pumpy? I wonder if that's like the botulism you get from the no-chiller method.


I leave the lid partially off the whole time. I get a good evaporation rate and a vigorous boil.

I will leave the lid off if my preboil gravity is a little low.

 

[Pumpy]

On you get a good boil and save power

Off lets the toxins out

Toxins, eh pumpy? I wonder if that's like the botulism you get from the no-chiller method.

Ooooohhh Kai,

Yeah, I had in the back of my mind something Palmer said in his book .

When I looked it up he said words to the effect ,

'There are Sulphur compounds which evolve and boil off If they are not removed during the boil they can frm Dimethyl sulphide which gives the beer a cooked cabbage flavor .

Not quite toxins :blink:

Pumpy

 

[homebrewworld.com]

Pumpy.

For me the boil is like good sex.
Reaching the boil ='Socks off '
Full boil = 'Lid off '

 

[Pumpy]

Homebreworld I never heard an Analogy like that one


Pumpy