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Advanced Cicerone® · Beer Ingredients and Brewing Processes

Chilling

Syllabus Path

Chilling rapidly brings wort to pitching temperature, creates cold break, limits DMS formation, and reduces contamination time. Explain why chilling method matters for flavor, clarity, and microbiological control.

  1. IV. Beer Ingredients and Brewing Processes
  2. B. Processes
  3. 6. Chilling

Exam Focus

  • Explain chilling as a brewing analysis topic within Processes.
  • Relate cooling rate, cold break, heat-exchanger design, water use, sanitation, oxygen timing, and transfer path to wort quality.
  • Choose a chilling endpoint and method that protects clarity and aroma while minimizing the time wort spends in a contamination-prone range.

Core knowledge

  • Chilling rapidly brings wort to pitching temperature, creates cold break, limits DMS formation, and reduces contamination time.
  • Heat exchangers require sanitation and oxygen-management discipline; coolships intentionally expose wort to ambient cooling and microbes in specific traditions.
  • Slow chilling can increase microbial risk and preserve unwanted cooked or sulfury notes.

Study application

Explain why chilling method matters for flavor, clarity, and microbiological control.

Key Terms

Slow chilling
Slow chilling can increase microbial risk and preserve unwanted cooked or sulfury notes.

References

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