Brett3rThanU
Well-Known Member
I brewed a 100% Brett IPA using some dregs I built up from a Crooked Stave Hop Savant bottle (100% Brett) and am just about to dry hop it. Normally I never rack my beers to a secondary, but I'm thinking of racking this one to dry hop making it easier to collect and save some of this Brett for later. I'm worried however about oxygen when racking because I really don't want the Brett to start creating acetic acid. How sensitive is Brett to producing acetic acid with oxygen (I got a lot when I had this on the stir plate)? I could try to purge my secondary with co2, but I've read it just kind of mixes in with oxygen so that may not work. Would it be safer to just dry hop in the primary and rinse the brett a few times to eliminate hop residue and save that?