David Douglas
Consultant, Small Business Owner, and Fitness Instructor in USA
Partial and full boil refers towards the amount of wort you boiling. Therefore, a partial is only boiling a little of the wort, while a full boil should be that--a full amount of wort. Most beer brewing recipes scream for brewing 5 gallons of wort. However, there can easily couple techniques to result in a full 5 gallons of wort.