I mean a smart feller. I just got done brewing my fourth kit and this is the first time I did a full 5 gallon boil. The others were only 3 gallon with water added to make up. I actually got the wort cooling time down to about 15 minutes without a wort chiller. I have a whirlpool tub with water jets, and I've been just filling the tub with water and let the pot float around in there. Well, with the bigger pot, I filled the tub up above the water jets, and the pot didn't just float around. So, looking at this situation, I decided to see what happened if I turned the jets on. As it turns out, I had just enough time to sanitize everything for racking.
Then, after that, while racking it out, I was thinking about aeration. So, I let the tube down into the bottom of the carboy, submerged into the wort. And every few seconds, I lifted the racking tube just above the wort so it "burped" a little bit of air into the flow. I did this all the way down. Afterward, I still sloshed it around for about 5 minutes, figured it couldn't hurt.
So with this stuff in mind, what do you guys think? Decent ideas? Or did I just commit some kind of newbie sin? Input please!
Then, after that, while racking it out, I was thinking about aeration. So, I let the tube down into the bottom of the carboy, submerged into the wort. And every few seconds, I lifted the racking tube just above the wort so it "burped" a little bit of air into the flow. I did this all the way down. Afterward, I still sloshed it around for about 5 minutes, figured it couldn't hurt.
So with this stuff in mind, what do you guys think? Decent ideas? Or did I just commit some kind of newbie sin? Input please!