I have an idea that I want to test with "No Chill".
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For those recipes that need a 10 min, 5 min, or 1 min hop addition, I have a new plan. I won't do the late minute additions on brew day. Instead, I'll do them on the day I move the wort from the cube to the carboy.
When I rack from the cube to the carboy, I will divert 32oz of wort into an electric teapot. The rest will go into the carboy.
I'll bring the 32 oz of wort up to a boil again. I'll add my late addition hop to the teapot and boil for the 10, 5, or 1 minute. When the time is up, I'll pour the contents of the teapot into the carboy through a funnel lined with nylon mesh.
The 32oz of boiling wort should bring the temperature of wort in the carboy up by 7 degrees. So I can either start with 60 degree wort or wait for the temperature to come back down to where I feel comfortable pitching my yeast.
I have done this a few times, and to be fair, I'm not quite sure how well it works. It seems like by boiling these finishing hops in a miniscule amount of wort, the utilization gets weird, and you don't seem to get much of anything from them.
I HAVE A THEORY - BEAR WITH ME.....
In "normal" brewing, we talk about a "5 minute addition" (for example). Meaning that we throw some hops in "for 5 minutes" before the wort is chilled. HOWEVER, there is not a glycol-cooled plate chiller in the world that can bring down that wort from 212F to 60 within a minute or two, so really that "5 minute addition" is boiled for 5, but steeped in hot wort for 20-30 minutes or so until its basically room temp and any meaningful extraction of flavor stops.
In fact, if you read up on a lot of semi-pro brewers like Mike McDole, there is a large numbers of brewers who turn off their kettles, then just sit and wait for up to 20 minutes before turning on their chillers. (McDole was the guy who won the Sam Adams Longshot for a Double IPA, so he knows a thing or two about hoppy beers.)
So in this experiment, when you cook for the hops for 15/10/5/whatever, and then
immediately throw that into the cool wort, it drops the temp of the boiling hops
instantly. As such, I believe that this makes for an
ineffective way of adding hop flavor.
I have made a couple beers using up to maybe 1.5oz on average in each
in the exact manner that you are describing, and the hop flavor was
very, very weak.
So I suggest that if you want to try this, that you (a) use a little more hops than you normally would (maybe 20% more), (b) boil the hops in at least a half gallon of wort (full gallon would be better), and (c) let the boiled wort/hops steep by themselves for 15min AFTER you kill the heat before you pour them back into the main wort.
Please post back your results, and good luck! I'd LOVE to finally nail down hoppy beers done with the No Chill style, because so far my own efforts have been a little underwhelming. No bad or flawed, just weak in the hop flavor department.