Matplat
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I'm keen to hear the physics behind this.... I can't quite work it out?sp0rk said:Otherwise it actually has an insulating effect and won't bring hot wort down as quick as cool water would
I understand the principal behind trying to maintain a temperature gradient between cooling water and wort to maintian cooling rate. But surely if you have a really large gradient at the start, it would just balance out with your smaller gradient at the end. Ultimately you are just transferring the thermal mass of the iced water to the wort, does it make any difference when that occurs?
I'm really looking forward to chilling my next batch of a hoppy amber.... will be the first hop forward beer since making my immersion chiller...
I found that while recirculating, as well as pre-chilling cooling water, I got the wort down below 80 in a matter of minutes. Definitely going to try adding flame out hops sub 80 as well.
My setup would resemble C1....