When to use a wort chiller

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ashbyp

When to use a wort chiller

Post by ashbyp » Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:38 pm

Just found this on a mail order site as a description of a wort chiller:
Cools wort down to yeast pitching temperature from boiling point in a matter of minutes. This unit fits into a standard 5 gallon fermentation bin. The forced cooling also has the further advantage of producing a "cold break" where more protein is precipitated leading to a cleaner taste in the finished beer. Please note it is important to have run off the wort via a BRUPAKS HOP STRAINER before using this wort chiller otherwise you will put all the proteins, coagulated during the "hot break", back into solution.
Is that right? I thought most people put the chiller into the boiler?

Martin the fish

Post by Martin the fish » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:40 pm

Perhaps most people have been doing it wrong. :=P

Don't believe everything you read on the internet. Most of it is rubbish and the other lot is bullshit. Mostly.

sib67

Post by sib67 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:42 pm


ashbyp

Post by ashbyp » Fri Jun 06, 2008 4:52 pm

I see - thanks for the link.

Basically they are fibbing.

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