This weekend I brewed my 4th beer. An Oatmeal Stout, that I plan on putting some home-roasted coffee into the secondary. My buddy and I were hesitant to attempt to pour 5 gallons of wort from the cooled down boil pot to the plastic fermenter, so we used the siphon-pump do-hickey to transfer it and then pour the last gallon in. I got to thinking today, do I have to worry about not enough aeration?
Question about transferring from boil to fermenter
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paulster2626
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Nope. But I like to use the siphon just so I don't get all the extra crap in with the beer. Leaving the trub out of the whole equation is the preferred method.
Aeration, while important, is hard to mess up - at least that's what I've found in my short experience.
Aeration, while important, is hard to mess up - at least that's what I've found in my short experience.
You should still aerate you beer somehow after putting it in the fermenter. I use my autosiphon all the time to rack my beer into primary (But I've never left more than a little bit of hopgunk and break behind, not a gallon like you did, don't you tip the kettle to catch the last dregs?) But I always aerate after that.
As to what to do with this batch, just relax, you can't do anything now. Once it's started fermenting you don't want to add any o2 now, what's fermented will become oxidyzed.
As to what to do with this batch, just relax, you can't do anything now. Once it's started fermenting you don't want to add any o2 now, what's fermented will become oxidyzed.
Roger-copy. Yea, we got most of the trub from the bottom in there - this was by design. Although, if thats not "required", then next time we'll just siphon all the way and aerate. So, the next question is... how to aerate properly? Also, I'm not too worried. So far, every beer we've made has had some process problem that we are correcting with each successive batch.
THere's lots of ways, but this is considered the best.
It uses standard hardware store red oxygen bottles.
Williams Aeration system.
It uses standard hardware store red oxygen bottles.
Williams Aeration system.
