Home brew Beer, Oxygenate or Aerate Your Home Brewed Wort.
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A very simple way to aerate your wort after the boil. Less expensive then buying an oxygen tank, at the start yeast likes an aerated environment to begin the aerobic process of fermentation. Add Oxygen to your wort to reduce the lag time for the yeast to condition themselves to your carboy.
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Two problems with this:
Firstly, with the lid off your bucket, and you standing over it, you risk dust falling in and infecting. But I’m sure you know that.
Secondly, the proteins that create a stable head only work once. All that frothing denatures those proteins and leads to poor retention in the final product.
Buy a O2 tank ($5) and a diffusion stone ($10) and you’ll save a lot of time and see improvements in your beer.
Keep brewing!
Is this a food grade item or something you get at a hardware store?
Could you do this in your boil pot if it was big enough?
@reign424
2 HOOH -> 2 H2O + O2 True, But is that left over oxygen “dissolved” in solution so that the yeast can utilize it? A quick google search for “THE EFFECT OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ON YEAST GROWTH AND FERMENTATION” gives a simple answer “NO”. It’s properties of being a disinfectant, antiseptic, and oxidizer most likely outweigh any beneficial properties of adding oxygen to the solution… I’ve heard of people trying this before, and in my opinion it’s an old wives tale, like a Yeti, fiction
anybody ever just add some hydrogen peroxide? It’s H2O2.. basically water with an extra oxygen atom. It breaks down within 24 hours and you instantly induce oxygen from a liquid state with a small amount of H2O left over.
That’s a good observation, but the “scratching” noise you hear is the electric drill motor- I would never let the mixer touch the sides of the bucket. RDWHAHB…
This is good but you are putting scratches in your plastic bucket when that thing hits the sides and bottom. That’s the #1 place for bacteria to hide. Better be sure to clean and sanitize really well before using that bucket again and it’s virtually impossible to get into all the small scratches that thing is causing.
Two things: an O2 tank is $7 at Lowes and the airstone & regulator costs $35 at online retailers. An O2 setup gives you A LOT more oxygen in your wort and your risk of infection is much lower than your method. I’m sure your method works ok, but lets get the facts straight.
Lol use a paddle mixer! never would of thought of that. I’m a bricklayer now I can aerate the same way I mix mud.
Only thing i think could be a problem is scratching the inside of the bucket.
hardly any…
What kind of lag time do you have when areating like that?
That … is … genius. One of the best things I have noticed in the 4 years I’ve been brewing is all of the innovative things other homebrewers have done to either make the brewing process easier or more effective. And some shit makes me laugh. For instance there is a video on here of a guy aerating his wort with an airstone from a fishtank.
Good idea. If you capped yer bucket and added a spigot, you could rack into yer primary and wait for the foam to settle and add later.
Man, that’s funny. Nothing like a little ingenuity, but I must say, it’s probably a bit overkill. It’s like using a shotgun to take out a mouse. Still, 5 starts for originality – if it works for you, then, why not?
(I’m cracking up though.)
Well done, simple, quick and entertaining video. Lol at the “Don’t make a mess.” My only complaint– Now I’m going to have to buy a d*mned squirrel mixer.