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Originally Posted by cdcox
I was doing recipes that called for a 4 hour boil. I'm not sure that long of a boil was necessary.
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Interesting.
Unless you are making a really, really, really, strong beer, like 14%, I see no reason for a 4 hour boil. A lot if stuff has changed over the years though.
Anything past 90 minutes doesn't make sense to me unless you miss your preboil gravity by a mile and need to boil off some extra water.
I do mainly 90 minute boils as it removes more of the DMS from the wort than 60 minute but I don't add any hops until after 30 minutes.
I think the longest boil I have ever done was around 1:45 and that was just to remove a little water.