Oxygen injection Ideas
Oxygen injection Ideas
I've talked to a few of you guys about injecting oxygen for my big beer, sounds like the best thing for this beer. Any ideas of how/what I need to do to make this the cheapest and most efficient. I've heard that you can blow pure oxygen into the top of the fermenter and then shake the oxygen into the beer, use an aeration stone, maybe some other ideas?
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Oxygen injection Ideas
I use a small air pump with an oxygen stone. I run it for 20 minutes or more. My last batch started bubbling in the airlock before I was done cleaning up.
On Jun 11, 2011 4:27 PM, "kurtford" <brew-equipment@crbeernuts.org (brew-equipment@crbeernuts.org)> wrote:> I've talked to a few of you guys about injecting oxygen for my big beer, sounds like the best thing for this beer. Any ideas of how/what I need to do to make this the cheapest and most efficient. I've heard that you can blow pure oxygen into the top of the fermenter and then shake the oxygen into the beer, use an aeration stone, maybe some other ideas?
On Jun 11, 2011 4:27 PM, "kurtford" <brew-equipment@crbeernuts.org (brew-equipment@crbeernuts.org)> wrote:> I've talked to a few of you guys about injecting oxygen for my big beer, sounds like the best thing for this beer. Any ideas of how/what I need to do to make this the cheapest and most efficient. I've heard that you can blow pure oxygen into the top of the fermenter and then shake the oxygen into the beer, use an aeration stone, maybe some other ideas?
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I began using an oxygen bottle and an aeration stone in both my starter and the wort. The first time I forgot to aerate the wort. It took two hours for the batch to start bubbling the lock. The second batch (a wit) I oxygenated the starter(2-liter) for 30 sec and the wort for two minutes. The lock was bubbling inside of twenty minutes. Check out Williams Brewing (California).
John Buck
Brother John's Brewing
The Monk at the Hartley Monastary
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This is the only time I've ever seen a homebrewer actually use a DO meter to run some experiments on wort oxygenation (White Labs has a similar report, but didn't provide nearly as much detail). Personally, I've started using the "flood the headspace with oxygen and stir" technique. Everyone's equipment is different, but I find it much easier and less messy to do this than use an oxygen stone.
This is the only time I've ever seen a homebrewer actually use a DO meter to run some experiments on wort oxygenation (White Labs has a similar report, but didn't provide nearly as much detail). Personally, I've started using the "flood the headspace with oxygen and stir" technique. Everyone's equipment is different, but I find it much easier and less messy to do this than use an oxygen stone.