Bubble in the autosiphon

[bennyd]

Well, I racked my nut brown ale to my carboy today. OG was 1.046 and after a little over a week in the primary it is down to 1.014. I was pretty happy with it. It tasted and smelled like beer!! (go figure, right?)

While siphoning to the carboy I was getting near the end. The siphon came up and a bubble went through the hose and down into the carboy. The hose was at the bottom to keep from splashing. If the beer was bathwater, then it looked like someone farted in it. (sorry for the crude analogy)

But that was it.....no more bubbles after that. I guess I figure that it's ok.....but would that small amount of air be something to worry about?

 

[Revvy]

It takes a lot more oxygen exposure of our beer to cause any damage, than what we do in the normal course of our brewing AND in most of the boneheaded mistakes we make(including using our autosiphon like a hand pump if it gets stuck) or typical bubbles in the lines.


In a basic brewing podcast years ago, one of the big wigs, John Palmer, or Chris Colby (the editor of BYO) said that the amount of oxygen to actually damage our beer, is actually far in excess of what we do in the normal course of brewing and even most of our accidents. And requires about the amount of oxygen that we could pump in by emptying one of our red oxygen bottles with an airstone into our bottling bucket....not the normal amount of motion we make if we are careful brewers.

Also the effects of oxydation are long term they affect the storage of beers...Unless you pumped an oxygen bottle into your finished beer, you will have consumed your two cases of beer long before any signs of oxydation would show up.

So don't stress out about that...try to avoid it, but don't freak out !

Our beer is much hardier than most new brewers give it credit. Check out the stories in this thread, and you';; get the idea how resiliant out beer usually is.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/wh...where-your-beer-still-turned-out-great-96780/

 

[rico567]

Nope. Rack on!

 

[polk121]

Im no expert but not a problem. Would take more than that little bubble to mess anything up.

 

[bennyd]

Thanks guys. That's what I thought, but figured it did no harm to ask. I also feel honored to have revvy reply to one of my posts.......

One more question that is non-beer related. I've had a couple of people say that even though I'm not allowed to post attachments, there is a way for me to get pictures in my posts. I'd like to be able to post pictures of some of my processes. Can someone clear up how I can get a picture into a post?

Thanks.

 

[phatuna]

you could upgrade

or you can post a link to whatever online picture website that you use (picasa, kodak or whatever). Make sure to keep that photo album "open to the public" in your online photo website so we can view it.