mwsenoj
Well-Known Member
Last week when I was brewing a batch for my brother's Christmas present, I realized that I had not prepared to aerate my wort before pitching. I figured I would try to shake the carboy before it got too full but, by accident, when using my autosiphon, I started to draw air in with the inlet side of my autosiphon in the kettle. I thought, "what the heck" and intentionally kept the suction end of the siphon 3/4 submerged and manually pumping the siphon while drawing in tons of frothy wort and ambient air. I pitched 2 packets of dry yeast (properly rehydrated according to Zainaschef and White's book "Yeast") and I had signs of active fermentation within an hour! The 1.074 IPA's krausen fell only 2 days later and is at 1.020 now (I mashed waaay too hot ~168*F)
Has anyone else found good results using this method?
Has anyone else found good results using this method?
