n8huntsman
Active Member
I've heard a alot of people say this. Since the beer will produce co2 which is denser than o2, and keep a blanket over the beer.... blah, blah blah (I'll leave the validity of that argument to the threads that already exist). My question is to those who believe this to be true, is it bad to quickly "peak" into your conical or other non-clear fermenter once in a while? On one hand, the o2 should remain over the beer. On the other hand, when I want to peak, the fermentation is mostly over and not much co2 is being produced. I don't want to disturb the blanket and risk oxidizing the beer. I have a 15 gallon fermenter and only 5 gallon batches so I don't think peaking would do much harm. It should have a rather large blanket by the point that I'm peaking.