Danek

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Cool link - thanks

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Bottle conditioning: Pliny the Elder clone; Tramp's Overcoat Barley Wine
Next up: Vanilla Porter

Bob

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Kinda like this?



Cheers,

Bob

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T-bone

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Those aquarium pumps are misleading. As a matter of fact, in a fish tank, slight agitation of the surface tension aerates much more than a stone. Same thing applies to the wort.

My favorite method is to use the sprayer on my faucet to top off the fermenter. I did that last night and I ended up with about 3 inches of foam on top of the wort.

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Drinking: Golden Ale, IPA, "Pilsneresque Ale"
Brewing: Red Ale

sirsloop

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I just made myself a aeration setup at a reasonable cost. You get one of those mini O2 bottles from home depot, the reverse thread valve from williams, a 2 micron diffuser stone, and a racking cane. Everything went together with some extra hose I had laying around... works awesome! I'll never go back to stirring, shaking, blending, etc etc. Drop the wand in and fire it up!

http://www.williamsbrewing.com/OXYGEN_REGULATOR_P700.cfm

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EvilTOJ

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This works. Hoo boy does it work. I used to have a mud mixer.

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jfrizzell

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Thanks for the information. That's a great price on the regulator. I've seen it for $50 at other places. For $19 I can probably justify an aeration setup!

Schlenkerla

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Saturday, I used my kitchen hand mixer.... I also had 2-3" of foam on top of the wort. I sprinkled the Safale-05 on top and it floated and gradually reconstituted.

The foam was like heavy head to boot!

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BS Nano-Brewery

Primary: Dunkelweizen, Helles, Apfelwein
2ndary:empty
Drinking: Light Ale, Fat Tyre Clone, Portly Porter, Apfelwein
Next: Irish Dry Stout, Caribou Slobber,

|Myeast 50327|Easy Hop Oast|

sirsloop

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I had to turn off my O2/stone setup after like 90 seconds because I had thick foam about to pour out of a 8 gallon primary on a 5 gallon batch.

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Desert_Sky

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You're never really going to know how much you have unless you are using a DO meter.

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Sierra Vista, AZ