Hi guys,
I consider buying the Grainfather. As far as I understand, the wort chiller is supposed to be sterilized by connecting it and letting wort run through it for about 5 minutes. Won't this procedure affect the hop utilisation and calculations?
Consider if the recipe has a 10 minute hop addition. You toss in the hops, then after them being boiled for 5 minutes, and there is 5 minutes left, you connect your chiller. I can see from videos that the temp then will drop some degrees. How do you think regarding this?
Do you:
1.) Pause the timer. Bring it up to a boil again, and boil for another 5 minutes? You then will have 10 minutes of real boiling of that hop, BUT you will also have some minutes of steeping at 97-98 degrees in between there,
2.) Or do you consider the slightly less temperature when the chiller is connected as a part of the 10 minute boil? So that after 5 minutes of hot wort flowing through, then you consider it as a 10 minute boil in total. Even if it hasn't really boiled for 10 minutes.
Really curious about this...
Cheers
I consider buying the Grainfather. As far as I understand, the wort chiller is supposed to be sterilized by connecting it and letting wort run through it for about 5 minutes. Won't this procedure affect the hop utilisation and calculations?
Consider if the recipe has a 10 minute hop addition. You toss in the hops, then after them being boiled for 5 minutes, and there is 5 minutes left, you connect your chiller. I can see from videos that the temp then will drop some degrees. How do you think regarding this?
Do you:
1.) Pause the timer. Bring it up to a boil again, and boil for another 5 minutes? You then will have 10 minutes of real boiling of that hop, BUT you will also have some minutes of steeping at 97-98 degrees in between there,
2.) Or do you consider the slightly less temperature when the chiller is connected as a part of the 10 minute boil? So that after 5 minutes of hot wort flowing through, then you consider it as a 10 minute boil in total. Even if it hasn't really boiled for 10 minutes.
Really curious about this...
Cheers
