ardentfrost
Well-Known Member
This weekend I'm doing my first full boil, which I'm happy about. However, in the past I aerated the liquid in the fermenter through a few different methods combined, including splashing the wort from the brew pot into the fermenter, shaking up any water additions prior to adding it, and shaking the whole fermenter if I felt the previous two weren't enough.
Since one of my two main methods goes away when doing full boils, I was sitting here thinking and remembered that I have an aquarium pump we bought a couple years ago and ended up not liking due to all the noise it created in the fish tank. So I just found it and now I'm wondering how and if I can use it for aeration.
Can I just connect a tube to it, weigh the tube down so it falls to the bottom of the fermenter, and just turn on the pump for a while? The thing doesn't seem very powerful, but I know people use these things for aeration.
Since one of my two main methods goes away when doing full boils, I was sitting here thinking and remembered that I have an aquarium pump we bought a couple years ago and ended up not liking due to all the noise it created in the fish tank. So I just found it and now I'm wondering how and if I can use it for aeration.
Can I just connect a tube to it, weigh the tube down so it falls to the bottom of the fermenter, and just turn on the pump for a while? The thing doesn't seem very powerful, but I know people use these things for aeration.