What do most people do to aerate their wort?
Previously I never even considered it splashed the wort in when filling the carboy and still made beer. Now Im starting to at least shake the carboy to aerate it. I would like to get a little more serious with minimal investment, dont want to buy an oxygen tank. Its sometimes challenging enough to get a CO2 tank filled.
I see aviation supply places sell little disposable canisters of oxygen. They are intended as supplemental breathing O2 for pilots flying at altitude. They have a cup on the end to place over your nose/mouth and take a drag (for lack of a better term). They are $10-$13 a can and probably would last you a few batches. Key is whether you could remove the delivery system and attach it to a tube of some sort.
Hydrogen Peroxide is a cheap, readily available source of O2. Just need to find something as cheap and available to use as a catalyst to get a reaction thatll off gas pure O2. I see people do that in the fish/aquarium industry to oxygenate the water for the fish. Seems they use Manganese Dioxide as the catalyst .where does one find that?
Could use an aquarium pump and just pump air through a stone in the wort. However, not sure I want to pump my basement air through room temperature wort.
Any ideas?
Previously I never even considered it splashed the wort in when filling the carboy and still made beer. Now Im starting to at least shake the carboy to aerate it. I would like to get a little more serious with minimal investment, dont want to buy an oxygen tank. Its sometimes challenging enough to get a CO2 tank filled.
I see aviation supply places sell little disposable canisters of oxygen. They are intended as supplemental breathing O2 for pilots flying at altitude. They have a cup on the end to place over your nose/mouth and take a drag (for lack of a better term). They are $10-$13 a can and probably would last you a few batches. Key is whether you could remove the delivery system and attach it to a tube of some sort.
Hydrogen Peroxide is a cheap, readily available source of O2. Just need to find something as cheap and available to use as a catalyst to get a reaction thatll off gas pure O2. I see people do that in the fish/aquarium industry to oxygenate the water for the fish. Seems they use Manganese Dioxide as the catalyst .where does one find that?
Could use an aquarium pump and just pump air through a stone in the wort. However, not sure I want to pump my basement air through room temperature wort.
Any ideas?
will keep searching though.
