This keep your beer away from oxygen business has always seemed like hocus-pocus to me. I mean anchor brewing uses open fermentors.
So I filled a beer with my gravity sample and the last bubbling beer that came out of my syphon. Also the head space in this beer is about 1/4 of the bottle. I never intended to use this beer as a “good” beer, but just to check my carbonation and make sure that nothing went terribly wrong. It has been just over two weeks in the bottle and the taster bottle has really darkened compared to the other ones.
Its funny, I’m kind of excited to be able to test and find out how I will experience an oxidized beer. Maybe the flavor will be unaffected, but there is for sure a visible difference.
I took a picture and even though you can’t tell the beers have similar clarity, but the color difference is obvious.
So headspace, agitation and aeration do make a difference as far as oxidation is concerned.
So I filled a beer with my gravity sample and the last bubbling beer that came out of my syphon. Also the head space in this beer is about 1/4 of the bottle. I never intended to use this beer as a “good” beer, but just to check my carbonation and make sure that nothing went terribly wrong. It has been just over two weeks in the bottle and the taster bottle has really darkened compared to the other ones.
Its funny, I’m kind of excited to be able to test and find out how I will experience an oxidized beer. Maybe the flavor will be unaffected, but there is for sure a visible difference.
I took a picture and even though you can’t tell the beers have similar clarity, but the color difference is obvious.
So headspace, agitation and aeration do make a difference as far as oxidation is concerned.