Oxygenating Post Lacto

[KarmaCitra]

I just finished pitching the L Plantarum capsules into my Berliner Weisse wort, and as I was doing that, I was curious how the saccharomyces will do with no oxygen in the wort? Is it possible for me to hit the wort with oxygen once I boil again to kill remaining lacto, cool to fermentation temp, and pitch the yeast? In my research, I understand that lacto prefers no oxygen in the wort as it sours.

 

[RPh_Guy]

As normal you're free to oxygenate before pitching yeast!

Lacto doesn't really care whether there's oxygen (it's aerotolerant).

 

[ccous]

True, you can likely oxygenate. I don’t when I sour with lacto as long as I’m pitching healthy yeast, I let it fight it out and it always does fine. I have not had off flavors making yeast work in a low O2, low pH environment