Boiling The Wort.

Post by **Oliver** » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 11:45 am

thehipone wrote:I have boiled a Morgans kit, which is supposedly "specially kettled for excess clarity"

Hmmm. Excess clarity.

Would anyone hazard a guess at what the hell that means?

Oliver

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 12:26 pm

You can see through it?

Like water............like their beer..........

Just a guess

Dogger

Tipsy · Post by **Tipsy** » Wednesday Oct 05, 2005 9:29 pm

Oliver wrote:
thehipone wrote:I have boiled a Morgans kit, which is supposedly "specially kettled for excess clarity"
Hmmm. Excess clarity.

Would anyone hazard a guess at what the hell that means?

Oliver

If I have a beer with excess clarity I give it a shake to stir up the sediment.

50% Mogman · Post by **50% Mogman** » Monday Oct 10, 2005 1:44 am

Thanks for the input, comrades.
....clarified a few things for me.....

John.

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Monday Oct 10, 2005 6:38 am

Dogger Dan wrote:

....unless you are placing the pot directly on an electric oven which you shouldn't do.....

Hi Dogger,

What difference does the heat source make to the boil ?
Heat is Heat isn't it ?

yardglass

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Monday Oct 10, 2005 8:54 am

Ahhh,

See, there in lies the issue.

Electric heat is a point source, gas is " all round"

(think about the element foot print in your pan when you boil water)

When boiling wort, it you don't displace it off the electrical element you can burn the sugars and then you will really see the element imprint. This also goes for funky little electrical immersion heaters to.

I will guarentee that 90 percent of the people who tell me their malt darkened with boiling are using electric stoves. The rest have nuclear powered natural gas

They make little things to displace the pot off the element which are cheap cheap cheap

Dogger

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Monday Oct 10, 2005 3:19 pm

Thanks Dogger,

Will get one.

yardglass

NTRabbit · Post by **NTRabbit** » Monday Oct 10, 2005 8:00 pm

I boiled the result of 100g of steeped crystal grain, a 1.5kg can of amber malt and a coopers real ale can and the wort came out much much darker than i was anticipating. I guess my gas stove is nuclear powered, or I underestimated what i was getting.

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Monday Oct 10, 2005 8:58 pm

That Amber is a lot darker than most expect. I was suprised. I used an Amber malt on my last couple of brews cause there was no pale malt and gees Louise, they were dark, Nut Brown Dark

But to clarify a bit, I had read about this electric vs gas issue and never thought anything about it as I boiled on my electric stove but I could never make that really light blonde colour. Beer was good so I didn't worry.

As soon as I bought my gas stove, I hit it every time.

Dogger