Secondary too big?

[thorHB]

I racked a little over 5 gallons of my india red ale over to an 8-gal speidel fermenter ( http://www.morebeer.com/products/speidel-plastic-fermenter-30l-79-gal.html ) as a secondary to dry hop. Started thinking about it and its been bothering me all day at work. Should I be worried about oxidation with there being so much head space?

 

[brew_ny]

too much unless you can purge with CO2 and at five gallons you would have lots of surface area


all the best

S_M

 

[MrFancyPlants]

could he prime with some sugar to clear the headspace? I know it would partially defeat the point of racking/dryhopping, but I think it would be better then just letting it oxidize

 

[thorHB]

thanks guys. I have a spare keg that I am going to rack it to when I get home. Really dumb for not realizing that before I racked to the oversized secondary. I'll get it in the keg, purge the oxygen and hope that i didn't do any oxygenation damage these past 20 hours or so.

 

[brew_ny]

thanks guys. I have a spare keg that I am going to rack it to when I get home. Really dumb for not realizing that before I racked to the oversized secondary. I'll get it in the keg, purge the oxygen and hope that i didn't do any oxygenation damage these past 20 hours or so.

I think you will be fine