Precooler Apparatus for Cooling Beerwort

A method for cooling beerwort with cooling water that is precooled by directing the cooling water, pressurized, through a precooler, contacting the cooling water with a cooling media, and subsequently directing the cooling water to a heat exchanger used for cooling beerwort comprising:

• opening a closure of a port located on the precooler;
• depositing a desired amount of the cooling media through said port into an interior chamber;
• closing a closure of said port;
• attaching a first end of a first conduit to a source of the cooling water and attaching a second end of said first conduit to an inlet of the precooler;
• attaching a first end of a second conduit to an outlet of the precooler and attaching a second end of said second conduit to the heat exchanger;
• placing the heat exchanger in communication with beerwort to be cooled;
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• initiating flow of the cooling water passing said cooling water through said first conduit through said inlet of the precooler into said interior chamber, within said interior chamber said cooling water contacting the cooling media, thereby transferring heat from the cooling water to the cooling media and producing a lower temperature cooling water, passing said lower temperature cooling water through said outlet of the precooler through said second conduit to the heat exchanger.