Lesson 5 - Wort Cooling and Oxygenation Technology and Process Control SAQ
This lesson provides the opportunity for you to test yourself on the material covered in Lesson 4 (Wort Cooling and Oxygenation Technology and Process Control) and determine the level to which you have attained the expected outcomes.
Self-Assessment Questions
1. **Compare and contrast the use of a shell and tube versus a plate heat exchanger for cooling wort.
2. **You have been asked to improve your local brewery’s wort cooling system, which is currently a coolship. What would you replace it with? Explain your reasoning.
3. *Your ale brewery is switching to high gravity brewing. Explain the wort cooling and oxygenation requirements.
4. **You have been tasked with improving wort cooling at your brewery. What would be your six areas of focus? What improvements would you make?
5. **Your brewery has to reduce the duration of wort cooling to better suit the new cycle times and productivity requirements. How will you achieve this? What will you change?