Semi Chill instead of No Chill?

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Beer-Baron

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So I just started doing some No Chill brewing and its great.

I do the whole thing where I adjust my hop schedule but I was wondering if I were to cube my wort. Seal it off and then just take the cube and put it in my laundry tub with cold water. Would that chill it down enough right away that you wouldn't need to adjust your hopping schedule?

I know it will still be WARM for quite some time but it might make it cold enough to stop it from getting more bitter than desired.

What do you think?
 
Depends how quickly you can drop the temperature. There's a paper on the topic floating around somewhere, but your rate of isomerization roughly halves every ten degrees.

Edit: (10 degrees C, that is).
 
Well I wonder how much it would cool in an ice bath. Hmmm.

It's an easy enough calculation based on the thermal masses of each liquid. It will depend on your volumes, primarily. Rate is more complicated to figure out, and will depend on factors that will be hard to measure in a controlled way.
 
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