a noob ?, If you were using a wort chiller (placed it into the brew pot with 15 min. left in the boil), would you take it out and place it on a sanitized surface(the pot lid) while you mixed in the extract at flame out or just leave the chiller out of the pot and spray the wort chiller with star san and put it in after thee dme/lme is mixed in?
cheers,
1st brew slated for next week
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You don't need to take the chiller out. Just stir the extract in with a whisk in the middle, and then swirl the chiller around after that, to mix it up. I am not explaining it well, but if you try it you'll see what I mean!
Just curious, have you done this before?
And are you talking about all the extract? I've done a number of late additions but never with 100% of the extract. For some reason just boiling water and hops for 60 minutes doesn't seem right. You wouldn't get that beautiful smell of boiling wort.
I can't remember if it effects hop utilization or not. I remember reading a ton of posts on the subject about a year ago and I forget where it all landed.
Something else to keep in mind, if you are going to do a majority of the extract as late additions just be sure to calculate how much volume it will add because you won't have time to burn off any excess. I wish I knew the calculation but maybe someone else knows.
I"ve done it, more than a dozen times, but never with all the extract at flame out.
I've used about 1 pound of extract per gallon of water in the boil, and then the bulk of extract at flame out. This works out great, and reduces maillard reactions and makes an extract beer without a "cooked extract" taste.
In recipes where I"ve had, say 2 pounds DME and 3 pounds LME, I would add the DME at the beginning and the LME at the end.
As far as volume, I'm pretty good with spatial relationships and I can look at a container of LME and visualize how much room it will take up in the pot so it's never been a problem at all. I have markings on my pot (with nail polish, so it's not exactly pretty!) so I can see where the volume markings are.
I rarely brew on the stovetop anymore, but I did back in October to show a friend how to brew.