Whirlpool Hops Addition Terminology Question

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This is to be a clone of a commercial beer. Does anyone know a commercial brewery that has a chiller between the kettle and whirlpool? I don’t, but it could be done.

Touche’.  This is also the reason I stick to higher temps.  They could transfer to another vessel (dedicated WP) and that could drop the temp maybe.  Who cares, adding fruit to an IPA is sacrilege anyway…  ;D

Yes it will drop the temperature, but a 100 bbls (use your favorite breweries kettle size here) of recently boiling wort into a whirlpool will drop it a little, but would guess not <200 F.

Honestly, I don’t know, interesting stuff.  I have also wondered if they run the WP for some time prior to adding any hops.  To me, it’s less about exactly how to do it and more about the concept getting the majority of your IBU from the WP rather than boil.

I have been to one where they place the whirlpool hops in the whirpool before. I have read others add hops later. Comes down to the equipment and what the brewery wants to do for the beer.