max-the-knife
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When I was racking from primary to 2ndary, my racking cane came out of the wort for a second or so and I developed an air pocket in the tubing. Will this be a cause for concern with respect to oxidation?
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Benjibbad
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nope, you would not have aerated enough to oxidize your beer. It takes a whole lot more than a few air bubbles.
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Nope, you will be fine. 
It takes a lot more oxygen exposure of our beer to cause any damage, than what we do in the normal course of our brewing AND in most of the boneheaded mistakes we make(including using our autosiphon like a hand pump if it gets stuck) or typical bubbles in the lines.
In a basic brewing podcast years ago, one of the big wigs, John Palmer, or Chris Colby (the editor of BYO) said that the amount of oxygen to actually damage our beer, is actually far in excess of what we do in the normal course of brewing and even most of our accidents. And requires about the amount of oxygen that we could pump in by emptying one of our red oxygen bottles with an airstone into our bottling bucket....not the normal amount of motion we make if we are careful brewers.
Also the effects of oxydation are long term they affect the storage of beers...Unless you pumped an oxygen bottle into your finished beer, you will have consumed your two cases of beer long before any signs of oxydation would show up.
So don't stress out about that...try to avoid it, but don't freak out !
Our beer is much hardier than most new brewers give it credit. Check out the stories in this thread, and you';; get the idea how resiliant out beer usually is.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/wh...where-your-beer-still-turned-out-great-96780/
In a basic brewing podcast years ago, one of the big wigs, John Palmer, or Chris Colby (the editor of BYO) said that the amount of oxygen to actually damage our beer, is actually far in excess of what we do in the normal course of brewing and even most of our accidents. And requires about the amount of oxygen that we could pump in by emptying one of our red oxygen bottles with an airstone into our bottling bucket....not the normal amount of motion we make if we are careful brewers.
Also the effects of oxydation are long term they affect the storage of beers...Unless you pumped an oxygen bottle into your finished beer, you will have consumed your two cases of beer long before any signs of oxydation would show up.
So don't stress out about that...try to avoid it, but don't freak out !
Our beer is much hardier than most new brewers give it credit. Check out the stories in this thread, and you';; get the idea how resiliant out beer usually is.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/wh...where-your-beer-still-turned-out-great-96780/
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