Hoping I didn't oxidize moving from...

the primary to a secondary so I can brew another batch. I transferred it prior to reading through some of the forum topics and didn't have my hose all the way down in the secondary.

Any tell tale signs to look for while it sits in there for another week and a half before priming/bottling?

 

No signs and I don't think you have anything to worry about. You really need to expose it to a lot of oxygen over a period of time to do any harm. And you didn't.

 

Glad to know... first batch jitters and all that I guess. I'm sure I'll feel more comfortable when I get a few under my belt.

Thanks for the speedy reply.

 

If you're ultra paranoid you can invest in a CO2 charger at your local home brew shop. Usually people use them to fill corny kegs, but you can also use them with food grade CO2 to fill the headspace with CO2 and ensure that as little air as possible is present.

 

well if it comes out tasting like liquid cardboard you know its oxidized. but as far as just looking at it there is no way that i know of to tell.

 

.......or an accurate New Belgium Clone!

 

Has anyone ever actually gotten a batch that has this taste. I think all the fears about Oxidizing your beer is way over blown. With my last batch of IPA my racking tube got plugged and I couldn't get a siphon to re-start so I had to pour half the beer from my bucket through the funnel and into the keg and it tastes damn good. No cardboard taste that I can detect.

 

i agree. it does happen. i have only read about it in books and posts on here. never actually had it happen to me.

 

And I need to work on my beer making lingo... should have been while racking it from the primary to the secondary lol.

What a great hobby to have.

 

I am still pretty new here...but Oxidation seems to be the boogie man of homebrew contamination. Everyone knows of it, everyone speaks of it in reverential tones. Very few have actually had a batch become Oxidated (oxidized?).

Besides, if what you did were certain death to a batch, I doubt that Northern Brewer would allow it to happen in an instructional video

 

***Not saying that what you did is a "Best Practice" or anything. Next time, submerge the end of your hose. But I think you should probably RDWHAHB