Glossary
Knockout
Transferring wort out of the kettle at the end of the boil, through the chiller and into the fermenting vessel.
Also called cast out, run off to fermenter.
Related
- Pitching — What normally follows.
More vocabulary
Arrested fermentation · Barrel ageing · Batch sparging · Biotransformation · Blending · Bottle conditioning · Bottom fermentation · Burtonisation · Cask conditioning · Centrifugation
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Last reviewed 2026-08-16.