virgil1
Well-Known Member
Long story short I had the wrong stopper for my glass carboy, so when I did my first BIAB all grain batch yesterday, I had to use my plastic bucket fermentor. Is it ok to open it up in 10 days, and and put hops in(in a bag, with soap stones to weigh it down) and close it back up? Will that let too much Oxygen in? I could siphon it to the glass carboy, but I ended up with only 4.5 gallons and the glass carboy is 6.5 gallons. Is there too much head space anyhow? What's the deal with oxygen, is it just exposing the hops is bad and I am ok if I weigh them down? Or is it exposing any of the beer to oxygen...in which case opening the lid on the fermentor is bad to start with?