MileHighHops
Well-Known Member
I currently have my second ever batch (both 1st and 2nd were IPAs) bottle conditioning. I bottled last Saturday (5 days ago) so I'm still impatiently waiting to see if everything turned out okay. (11 days primary, 11 days secondary w/ dry hop, 5 days and counting in bottle).
So here's the problem, when racking to secondary and later to bottling bucket I wasn't concerned with limiting the splasing of the beer and there were times that air bubbles got into my siphon. It wasn't until after the fact that I realized those are both bad things and I should have been paying careful attention to limiting the amount of oxygen that comes in contact with my post-fermented beer.
The one thing I have going for me is my first batch turned out great, and I'm sure I probably splashed the hell out of that beer too. I also sanitized everything from the first batch in the bathtub (cleaned it thoroughly, but still dumb nonetheless) and just used that powder sanitizer, no star san. I even used my mouth when siphoning and accidentally had beer spill from my mouth into bottling bucket...and everything was still fine! I was much more diligent in my sanitizing practices my second time around, but didn't learn of oxidation precautions until after the fact.
So, should I worry about this batch having off flavors due to oxidation?
So here's the problem, when racking to secondary and later to bottling bucket I wasn't concerned with limiting the splasing of the beer and there were times that air bubbles got into my siphon. It wasn't until after the fact that I realized those are both bad things and I should have been paying careful attention to limiting the amount of oxygen that comes in contact with my post-fermented beer.
The one thing I have going for me is my first batch turned out great, and I'm sure I probably splashed the hell out of that beer too. I also sanitized everything from the first batch in the bathtub (cleaned it thoroughly, but still dumb nonetheless) and just used that powder sanitizer, no star san. I even used my mouth when siphoning and accidentally had beer spill from my mouth into bottling bucket...and everything was still fine! I was much more diligent in my sanitizing practices my second time around, but didn't learn of oxidation precautions until after the fact.
So, should I worry about this batch having off flavors due to oxidation?