Ok, so I decided to step up my game on this brew and go for a DME, honey wheat beer. I used an american wheat yeast, some hallertau hops @ 5 mins and some tetnanger at 15 mins, (did not want hardly any hop bite, as I wanted the honey and wheat to be the dominating flavours, with a real slight bite) anyway... heres the problem
All went fine, I boiled the water, added the DME, boiled it again, added the hops, chucked it in an ice bath etc etc... but when I added it from the ice bath into the fermenter... the wort was still DAMN hot... im talking uncomfortable to put your hand into it hot.. now I know you have to chill the wort so its nice and cold but I just overestimated how cool the wort was... when I added it to the fermenter it foamed up and got very oxygenated... I then topped up to 5 gallons of water which was by then perfect for pitching the yeast, which I did... my question is... how bad is it to aerate hot wort? is it going to ruin my beer?
All went fine, I boiled the water, added the DME, boiled it again, added the hops, chucked it in an ice bath etc etc... but when I added it from the ice bath into the fermenter... the wort was still DAMN hot... im talking uncomfortable to put your hand into it hot.. now I know you have to chill the wort so its nice and cold but I just overestimated how cool the wort was... when I added it to the fermenter it foamed up and got very oxygenated... I then topped up to 5 gallons of water which was by then perfect for pitching the yeast, which I did... my question is... how bad is it to aerate hot wort? is it going to ruin my beer?