aerated beer a lot at bottling... need to be concerned?

[tandpbrewing]

We just bottled an Irish Red Ale, it looked and tasted pretty good. However, we dry hopped, with flowers not pellets and ended up with hops all over the place, so we ended up siphoning it through our funnel with the filter in it into the bottling bucket. Obviously this aerated the beer but we figured we didn't have an good alternatives unless we wanted to be eating hops with our beer. Will this cause the yeast to go to crazy? should we fridge them early to stop carbonation and avoid explosions? Used a hop bag on the next batch for dryhopping, and will be switching to pellets next time we hit the shop up.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

It probably won't cause bottle bombs or significant renewed activity with your yeast. However, you may have just oxidized your beer - effectively rendering it stale before it even hit the bottle. Only time will tell. If your beer has a cardboard flavor or aftertaste, the aeration during bottling is most certainly the cause.

 

[RichBrewer]

The beer should be done fermenting so it shouldn't be a worry. Go ahead and let it condition and don't worry about it. Drink it and learn from your experience.