zwaldo
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I'm about to finish my second Home brew and ordered some New equipment. One item that I purchased is a strainer that looks a lot like a hairnet that you put over the bucket. I used this when transferring from the boil to the fermentation bucket. It did a really! good job. I have 2, and "filtered" the batch twice with them and picked up a lot of the hops that where floating in the boil. I think stirred, added yeast and closed the top for fermentation.
Since then I have heard a lot about "you don't want to oxidizer! your brew! by doing things like opening the bucket a lot, stiring etc. Which I honestly do not understand since we had to oxygenate the mixture for the yeast...so how is the oxygen going to oxidize the brew...anyway that's another question I guess.
My question is this, when I syphen from the fermenter, to the bottling bucket, can I use my strainer again to try and pick some stuff out. I mean...I know i'm really not going to pick much out that didn't get caught in the first strain right... because if it was small nuff to get though the first time..then why would it get caught the second...but I don't know. I figured I'd try it. But Am I going to just end up oxidizing the brew, or would it help because I'm bottling and oxygenate the brew helping the yeast have the o2 to carbonate the brew better.
And if i'm going to strain the brew again...should I even worry about using a siphon? i mean why not just pour the brew though a strainer and just let it go.
NOw that i read it..seems like a stupid question...
Since then I have heard a lot about "you don't want to oxidizer! your brew! by doing things like opening the bucket a lot, stiring etc. Which I honestly do not understand since we had to oxygenate the mixture for the yeast...so how is the oxygen going to oxidize the brew...anyway that's another question I guess.
My question is this, when I syphen from the fermenter, to the bottling bucket, can I use my strainer again to try and pick some stuff out. I mean...I know i'm really not going to pick much out that didn't get caught in the first strain right... because if it was small nuff to get though the first time..then why would it get caught the second...but I don't know. I figured I'd try it. But Am I going to just end up oxidizing the brew, or would it help because I'm bottling and oxygenate the brew helping the yeast have the o2 to carbonate the brew better.
And if i'm going to strain the brew again...should I even worry about using a siphon? i mean why not just pour the brew though a strainer and just let it go.
NOw that i read it..seems like a stupid question...