cayugalakebrewer
New Member
Good Day, Guys:
This is a newbie process question. If you are going to do a partial boil, rather than aerating the wort portion in the kettle prior to pitching, instead can you independently aerate the cooled top-off water in the fermenter to provide enough oxygenation for the whole batch? If so, seems to me to have a couple of benefits including less open time, less foaming, more oxygen retention due to colder temp, and one less time step in the kettle at critical temp for bacteria production. Am I missing something? Thx.
This is a newbie process question. If you are going to do a partial boil, rather than aerating the wort portion in the kettle prior to pitching, instead can you independently aerate the cooled top-off water in the fermenter to provide enough oxygenation for the whole batch? If so, seems to me to have a couple of benefits including less open time, less foaming, more oxygen retention due to colder temp, and one less time step in the kettle at critical temp for bacteria production. Am I missing something? Thx.