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dibs78

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When bottling last night I racked my beer on top of my priming solution and when I was ready to start bottling, I turned on the spigot with the wand attached. I noticed a big air bubble shoot up the wand as the beer slowly trickled in and I heard a bubble in the bucket. After that, everything seemed fine and there wasn't any air or agitation while filling, but could that bubble have dome some oxidation damage?

This is actually my first time siphoning into a bottling bucket instead of just fermenting and bottling from the same bucket so I'm curious if there is a trick to preventing this for next time. The siphoning actually went surprising well. :)
 
Don't worry. This really won't cause a problem at all.

What people caution you to avoid once the beer is finished is a lot of splashing and vigorous mixing. That is bad. But some bubbles and agitation will occur when bottling. The key is to keep these limited as possible.
 
If you want the bubble to go down the tube rather than up the tube , raise the tube so the bubble goes up, which is actualy down. Got it, lol.

Thats suposing you can swing your link to the wand, I can turn the valve, or bend the short plastic tube connecting the wand.

Give the bottle that you think may be oxidised away (but it wont be oxidised !)
 
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