Confession Time

[jimmykx250]

I have never aerated and never will!
I practice no chill and will never go back!
I have never done water analysis and probably never will!

 

[DurtyChemist]

I have never aerated and never will!
I practice no chill and will never go back!
I have never done water analysis and probably never will!

How do you add oxygen?

 

[jimmykx250]

How do you add oxygen?

A stone and a small oxygen tank. Not worth the effort in my opinion. Shake your carboy if you really feel the need to air rate.

 

[DurtyChemist]

A stone and a small oxygen tank. Not worth the effort in my opinion. Shake your carboy if you really feel the need to air rate.

Isn't a diffusion stone and an oxygen tank a form of aeration?

 

[cyanmonkey]

Isn't a diffusion stone and an oxygen tank a form of aeration?

Yes. You're talking pure O2 with a stone vs. air which consists of about 21% oxygen.

From my understanding, it depends on wort strength and yeast strain when it comes to the need to aerate and 90% of the time aerating by shaking is sufficient.

 

[biochemedic]

I have never aerated and never will!

How do you add oxygen?

Isn't a diffusion stone and an oxygen tank a form of aeration?

 

[DurtyChemist]

Physiology. to expose (a medium or tissue) to air, as in the oxygenation of the blood in respiration.

He said he didn't aerate. I don't know what there is to miss. I'd expect someone with Biochemistry experience to understand aeration as the act of adding oxygen to a substance. I guess breathing isn't aeration since it isn't using pure O2.

 

[biochemedic]

Physiology. to expose (a medium or tissue) to air, as in the oxygenation of the blood in respiration.

He said he didn't aerate. I don't know what there is to miss. I'd expect someone with Biochemistry experience to understand aeration as the act of adding oxygen to a substance. I guess breathing isn't aeration since it isn't using pure O2.

 

[DurtyChemist]

What does aerate mean?

 

[hunter_le five]

Indeed. Quite. ipe:

 

[biochemedic]

What does aerate mean?

It means to introduce a gas into a mixture or solution, but that's not the point....

Q:

How do you add oxygen?

A:

A stone and a small oxygen tank. Not worth the effort in my opinion. Shake your carboy if you really feel the need to air rate.

jimmykx250 was answering your question literally...not with a description of his brewing practice! As per the original Confession:

I have never aerated and never will!

I was hoping I wouldn't have to resort to explanations.... Sorry for the confusion.

 

[feinbera]

I air-rate this air raid A-rate air aid.

...what were we talking about?

 

[DurtyChemist]

It means to introduce a gas into a mixture or solution, but that's not the point....

Actually it IS the point. Jimmy said he didn't aerate. You say that aerating means to add a gas to a solution. He should have said he doesn't shake the Fermentation vessel to add oxygen. He is adding gas to a solution. THIS was MY point. His confession would only make sense if he used olive oil or something instead of adding a gas to a solution.

 

[biochemedic]

Actually it IS the point. Jimmy said he didn't aerate. You say that aerating means to add a gas to a solution. He should have said he doesn't shake the Fermentation vessel to add oxygen. He is adding gas to a solution. THIS was MY point. His confession would only make sense if he used olive oil or something instead of adding a gas to a solution.

Ok, you win. Back to the Confessions.

I confess I wish I never got involved in this discussion...

 

[slym2none]

My latest confession - when I see biochemedic's avatar in my peripheral vision, it looks like a green Jim Morrison.

 

[DurtyChemist]

Ok, you win. Back to the Confessions.

I confess I wish I never got involved in this discussion...

Me too. :cheers:

 

[hunter_le five]

My brain hurts.

 

[hunter_le five]

I mean, I confess that my brain hurts.

 

[jimmykx250]

Im glad I bailed on this one. I thought my post was pretty clear but like anything else subject to interpretation- right?

 

[hunter_le five]

Clear as mud.

 

[Chiefer]

I must Confess I enjoy beer for breakfast.....it part of the brewing hobby

 

[SippinSudz]

I have never had a "shower beer"

I bet a beer while on the throne might be alright...

 

[Zepth]

I fail the D-rest. I am usually too busy RDWHAHBing to think about taking mid ferment gravity samples, then miss the target (20%?) remaining gravity and pull the fermenter from the chamber. I try and make up for it by letting it warm up after it hits FG for a week or two, but I don't think it's quite as effective.

 

[wi_brewer]

I confess that I always brew with the same friend. I always go to the LHBS myself, I do all of the work on brew day, I ferment in my fridge, I fill his keg for him and deliver it to his house, he pays me for ingredients. It's either that or brew alone .

Are you me? Am I you?

 

[Onkel_Udo]

I have never had a "shower beer"

I bet a beer while on the throne might be alright...

First 24 hours in Warsaw, Poland after 6 straight months in Iraq...I did both...more than once.

 

[Psylocide]

I have never had an infection.

 

[SatanPrinceOfDarkness]

I confess that I always brew with the same friend. I always go to the LHBS myself, I do all of the work on brew day, I ferment in my fridge, I fill his keg for him and deliver it to his house, he pays me for ingredients. It's either that or brew alone .

currently fighting to get my similar friend to put in more effort. He's helpful on brew day, and with bottling. It's the endless hours and hours of love and dedication I do in researching, preparing, and shopping that I want him to do as well.

And then there's the - "I can't brew this weekend... but probably next weekend".

 

[SatanPrinceOfDarkness]

I don't do any kind of temperature control during fermentation.

 

[Psylocide]

currently fighting to get my similar friend to put in more effort. He's helpful on brew day, and with bottling. It's the endless hours and hours of love and dedication I do in researching, preparing, and shopping that I want him to do as well.



And then there's the - "I can't brew this weekend... but probably next weekend".

Brew alone. It's the only way.

 

[DrunkleJon]

I have never had an infection.

Thats what she said!




Then I had to go on antibiotics....

 

[Todd820]

I often neglect to take a second FG reading. If it is in range, has been in the fermenter for an acceptable amount of time and the sample tastes good, I start to cold crash.

Less risky when you keg though, but I am sure I would end up with a more repeatable product if I made sure the darn stuff was done cooking every time.

 

[gunsington]

I slacked off with yeast freshness and used liquid yeast that was expiring in a month. Ruined 2 recent batches, extremely undrinkable and disappointing. Should have payed more attention to the yeast freshness.

 

[slym2none]

And then there's the - "I can't brew this weekend... but probably next weekend".

Is that like the "Free Beer Tomorrow" sign I see at some stores?

 

[slym2none]

I often neglect to take a second FG reading. If it is in range, has been in the fermenter for an acceptable amount of time and the sample tastes good, I start to cold crash.

I'm with you there, man.

I brew 2-2.5 gallon batches, so I'd rather have more in the bottles at the end than taking 2-3 FG readings and have 2 bottles less. I take a SG reading on about day 12 or 13 of fermentation,and if it's about where the recipe says it is, I go ahead and cold-crash then bottle.

Only one brew, a barley-wine, took more than 3 weeks total to get bottled. I let it stay in the fermenter an extra week (20 days total) before dry-hopping for 5 days & CCing for 3.

FTR - I checked my Irish red after 11 days, FG was estimated at 1.013, my reading was 1.008 - thanks, Nottingham! IDK if that will be too dry or what. It's in the fridge now, gonna bottle tonight. Total of 19 days in the primary (where I do all dry-hopping & cold-crashing).

 

[normonster]

I confess that I always brew with the same friend. I always go to the LHBS myself, I do all of the work on brew day, I ferment in my fridge, I fill his keg for him and deliver it to his house, he pays me for ingredients. It's either that or brew alone .

I brew alone.

 

[WI_Wino]

I slacked off with yeast freshness and used liquid yeast that was expiring in a month. Ruined 2 recent batches, extremely undrinkable and disappointing. Should have payed more attention to the yeast freshness.

I'm suspicious that the yeast best by date is the cause of your issues.

 

[slym2none]

I'm suspicious that the yeast best by date is the cause of your issues.

I thought the same thing.

 

[Biergarden]

These are all very good comments lol.
I don't sanitize my counter flow wort chiller. I just run boiling hot wort through it into my fermenter, then I turn on the cold counter flow water after some time. But I do sanitize everything else.

 

[normonster]

These are all very good comments lol.

I don't sanitize my counter flow wort chiller. I just run boiling hot wort through it into my fermenter, then I turn on the cold counter flow water after some time. But I do sanitize everything else.

That's why I'm ditching my therminator for one. Do that with the plate chiller and you're gunna have some nice mold bubbling out in a few days. No pics, so it's never happened to me, I'm just sayin... [emoji16]

 

[bruteforce]

I didn't clean my mash tun out yet from the brew day on saturday. I'm afraid to open it now.