westwardclock
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Could there be a significant change in hop profile if someone went from an immersion chiller to a counterflow or plate chiller.
In the instance of the immersion chiller the wort almost immediately cools to a point where late additions should not convert to buttering hops.
With the other 2 methods, depending on how fast you can drain wort, the remaining wort in the kettle is at near boiling until its drained out. Sometimes up to 30 minutes could elapse. At that temperature I'm thinking that late addition hops are being converted to bittering more so than say the immersion method.
I'm curious if 2 identical recipes, with the exception of cooling methods, were made side by side would the hop profile in the end be decernable? Or negligible?
In the instance of the immersion chiller the wort almost immediately cools to a point where late additions should not convert to buttering hops.
With the other 2 methods, depending on how fast you can drain wort, the remaining wort in the kettle is at near boiling until its drained out. Sometimes up to 30 minutes could elapse. At that temperature I'm thinking that late addition hops are being converted to bittering more so than say the immersion method.
I'm curious if 2 identical recipes, with the exception of cooling methods, were made side by side would the hop profile in the end be decernable? Or negligible?