Add Hot Mixture To Cold Water

[Munut]

G'day

I have a recipe for a aussie bitter that gives these instructions

Gently boil the hop pellets in a litre of water for 10 minutes.
Add this hot mixture & all other ingredients except yeast to 1-3
litres of hot water in a bucket (less in hot weather, more in cold weather).
Mix thoroughly. Half fill fermenter with cold water & add the hot mixture.
Add more cold water to the 22 litre mark.

Will tipping the hot mixture (2-4L) into half a fermenter of cold water (11L) have any effect on the final taste of the brew due to the hot mix getting cooled quickly?

Or should I just do as usual and make up my hot mix in the bottom of my fermenter and top up with cool water (one 2L jug at a time till 22L) and save cleaning up on the bucket?

Thanks

 

[warra48]

Save yourself some work.
No problems mixing it all up in the fermenter.
Just be sure to have about 10 litres of cold water in the fermenter before you add all the other ingredients etc, so you can mix it properly.



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[argon]

It's my understanding that you want the wort to cool as quickly as possible.
Slowly cooling the wort lets off-flavours take hold. Plus getting it down below about 25-30 degrees is a good idea to prevent oxidation and potential contamination.