So on Thursday night I brewed up my first batch of beer. And now I think I might have a problem.
Long story short I have two 5 gallon buckets I thought were 6.5 gallon buckets. My wort was an inch away from the rim and all I had was 5/16 id tubing for a blowoff. I thought it'd be safest to split the wort into my two buckets and not risk a huge mess.
Problem is now each bucket has 2.5 gallons of headspace and from what I read that's a problem for 3 week primary.
So do I rack to a single bucket for a secondary after primary to prevent oxidation?
Long story short I have two 5 gallon buckets I thought were 6.5 gallon buckets. My wort was an inch away from the rim and all I had was 5/16 id tubing for a blowoff. I thought it'd be safest to split the wort into my two buckets and not risk a huge mess.
Problem is now each bucket has 2.5 gallons of headspace and from what I read that's a problem for 3 week primary.
So do I rack to a single bucket for a secondary after primary to prevent oxidation?