ForerunnerBrewer
Well-Known Member
Several weeks ago I noticed a small leak from the spout of my fermentation bucket. As soon as I put my hand on it to inspect it the spigot broke an My Precious was pouring all over the floor! I yelled to my wife for help and we hobbled it to the kitchen to figure something out. I felt like the kid plugging the dam with his finger!
I then took some clamps and scrap wood from my woodwork hobby and clamped the lid on and tilted the bucket on its side with the spigot on the top. Next I siphoned everything into the 3rd bucket (after 2ndary), added back the oak chips and put it away.
I really wanted this batch to meet or exceed the same recipe I made last year and this event made me worry about oxygen in the beer and in the airspace below the airlock. 2 days later I thought a good fix may be to introduce more sugars so that the yeast would use that oxygen+sugar to create CO2 and push the oxygen in the headroom out the airlock. I boiled a half pound of table sugar and threw it in.
I think my idea will work what I really want to know is what your thoughts are on short term oxidation?
I then took some clamps and scrap wood from my woodwork hobby and clamped the lid on and tilted the bucket on its side with the spigot on the top. Next I siphoned everything into the 3rd bucket (after 2ndary), added back the oak chips and put it away.
I really wanted this batch to meet or exceed the same recipe I made last year and this event made me worry about oxygen in the beer and in the airspace below the airlock. 2 days later I thought a good fix may be to introduce more sugars so that the yeast would use that oxygen+sugar to create CO2 and push the oxygen in the headroom out the airlock. I boiled a half pound of table sugar and threw it in.
I think my idea will work what I really want to know is what your thoughts are on short term oxidation?
