jjphillybrew
Active Member
Making a Northern Brewer Hefeweizen. Their directions say to aerate the wort while the directions from my LHBS make no mention of aerating the wort. What the deal?
Thanx!
Thanx!
Here's my aeration method... has worked well for me thus far:
I drain from my kettle to bottling bucket. I have a valve on my kettle so I connect a length of tubing and then shake it while it's pouring into the bucket. This aerates it a bit.
Then, I place the bottling bucket above the carboy (I use my burner since it's entirely cool by then... but you could use anything... like a chair or whatever). The valve is just barely inside the carboy at this point and then I open the valve partially to let the wort "splatter" into the carboy. This takes a while as the wort doesn't come out very fast, but it aerates the hell out of it, so it's a super easy method. I just set and forget it.
I cool wort to 80ish and by the time this process is complete, I'm right at 70-72.
I just read that shaking the wort will only get you about 4 ppm of dissolved O2 but it takes more like 10-15 min. An aquarium pump set up will get you about 8 ppm after 15-20 min. The target is 10 ppm which can be accomplished with an O2 bottle, and a diffusion stone, after 30"-1'.
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