Air bubbles during bottling?

[siucubfan]

I just finished bottling my first brew. I did EdWort's Haus Ale AG.

I put the beer into the bottling bucket. Everytime I filled up a bottle there would be air bubbles coming through the spigot. My only guess is that the air is coming through the little air hole in the spigot. I am worried that I was getting to much oxidation in every bottle since it was doing that everytime. Is this something that I am just worring about for no reason or was I doing something wrong and did I oxidize and ruin the beer? Thanks for any help!

 

[hercher]

I think you're ok. Any oxygen you introduced into the beer likely will be consumed by the yeast as it carbonates your beer.

 

[kh54s10]

Did the air bubbles actually go down the filling wand and into the bottle each time? I have sometimes had a bubble form below the spigot and essentially just stay there. Smaller bubbles would break off travel down the wand and them rise back to the top.

IMO it takes a serious amount of air to ruin your beer.

But chime in in about 3 weeks and let us know.

 

[MalFet]

In all likelihood, what you're seeing is super-saturated CO2 coming out of suspension. This is very common, and nothing to worry about.

 

[AdamPag]

+1 to co2 leaving suspension. even if it is o2, +1 to yeasties eating it

 

[siucubfan]

Did the air bubbles actually go down the filling wand and into the bottle each time? I have sometimes had a bubble form below the spigot and essentially just stay there. Smaller bubbles would break off travel down the wand and them rise back to the top.

IMO it takes a serious amount of air to ruin your beer.

But chime in in about 3 weeks and let us know.

I don't have a wand. I just have a piece of tube connected to the spigot just long enough to go to the bottom of the bottle to keep from splattering the beer in the bottle. I would turn the spigot on it would fill about a 1/4 of the way slowly and then have a large air bubble and then fill the rest of the way pretty quickly. Thanks for the advice. Once I crack one open in a few weeks I will report back.

 

[rmolledo]

So how was it? [emoji851]

 

[kh54s10]

So how was it? [emoji851]

From March 8, 2012! I wonder if he would even remember that beer. And since he hasn't posted since March 2015, I doubt you will get an answer.

 

[GHBWNY]

From March 8, 2012! I wonder if he would even remember that beer. And since he hasn't posted since March 2015, I doubt you will get an answer.

I remember my first beer, doesn't everyone? Jan. 2014, Nut Brown Extract kit. It was actually darn good.

 

[kh54s10]

I remember my first beer, doesn't everyone? Jan. 2014, Nut Brown Extract kit. It was actually darn good.

I remember my first beer and second but without looking at my recipes I could tell you very little about many of the beers in between.

 

[Soulshine2]

I just finished bottling my first brew. I did EdWort's Haus Ale AG.

I put the beer into the bottling bucket. Everytime I filled up a bottle there would be air bubbles coming through the spigot. My only guess is that the air is coming through the little air hole in the spigot. I am worried that I was getting to much oxidation in every bottle since it was doing that everytime. Is this something that I am just worring about for no reason or was I doing something wrong and did I oxidize and ruin the beer? Thanks for any help!

Did you bottle directly from the spigot or hose and bottling wand?

 

[Soulshine2]

I don't have a wand. I just have a piece of tube connected to the spigot just long enough to go to the bottom of the bottle to keep from splattering the beer in the bottle. I would turn the spigot on it would fill about a 1/4 of the way slowly and then have a large air bubble and then fill the rest of the way pretty quickly. Thanks for the advice. Once I crack one open in a few weeks I will report back.

Buy a wand, cheap enough and a basic bottling necessity