Tips on aerating wort in fermenting bucket

[BonzoAPD]

What are some good tip on aerating wort in fermenting bucket?

 

[stevem86]

Shake the crap out of it!

Also, pour it from high up or use a strainer.

 

[beernutz]

Use an aquarium pump with a HEPA air filter on the line and either SS air stone or disposable plastic one.

 

[rappell]

I use a pump to move cooled wort from kettle to fermenter. I let the cooled wort recirculation back into the kettle for about 5 min then I let the stream of wort go into the fermenter with enough space to aerate. Works great...........

 

[whoaru99]

I've done it a few different ways...

Poured back and forth between the sanitized fermenter and a second sanitized bucket.

Shaken the daylights out of it (well, actually more like rocked the daylights out of it).

Used a sanitized paint mixer attached to a cordless drill.

They all seemed to get the job done and I didn't notice any one of those methods that clearly worked better based on fermentation vigor or attenuation.

 

[KeystoneHomebrew]

Best: Get an O2 tank from the hardware store, and a stone and gas line from your local homebrew store or other marketplace.

Cheapest and good: The pouring it in-between two sanitized buckets. This by far beats just shaking the bucket as hard as you can.

 

[quincy07]

On my last batch I used a half gallon pitcher, sanitized of course, to transfer the first couple gallons of cooled wort from the pot in my sink to the bucket on the floor. I would pretty much fill a pitcher from the bucket and dump it into the bucket from a foot or 2 above the top of the buckets and then when the pot got light enough to comfortably lift I just dumped it in as quickly as I could to aerate the wort. I then pitched my smack pack, stirred and stuck the bucket in a swamp cooler in the garage.

 

[BonzoAPD]

Currently I pour my wort into my bucket through a strainer and rock the bucket after I pitch the yeast. Am I not greeting enough oxygen to my beer? My beers have been coming out really good but maybe more oxygen when pitching the yeast will make them even better?

 

[freisste]

I've been using a kitchen whisk. Obviously sanitized first. It creates a hell of a frothy foam on the top, so I assumed I was doing alright. I understand it is no pure-O2-with-diffusion-stone, but seems foamier than pouring back and forth. Anybody see an issue here? Leaves my arm a little sore, but way easier than dealing with a full bucket.

 

[govner1]

+1 on getting an O2 cylinder w/ a stone and in line filter. There's a big difference between aeration and oxygenation.

 

[quincy07]

On my last batch I used a half gallon pitcher, sanitized of course, to transfer the first couple gallons of cooled wort from the pot in my sink to the bucket on the floor. I would pretty much fill a pitcher from the bucket and dump it into the bucket from a foot or 2 above the top of the buckets and then when the pot got light enough to comfortably lift I just dumped it in as quickly as I could to aerate the wort. I then pitched my smack pack, stirred and stuck the bucket in a swamp cooler in the garage.

 

[jgroesbeck]

Currently I pour my wort into my bucket through a strainer and rock the bucket after I pitch the yeast. Am I not greeting enough oxygen to my beer? My beers have been coming out really good but maybe more oxygen when pitching the yeast will make them even better?

I would suggest you consider buying the book called Yeast by C. White and J. Zainasheff if you've got a few bucks lying around and are ready and willing to go a little deeper in understanding yeast. The book is a very good resource for all things yeast. I noticed a marked difference in fermentation quality and consistency after reading and putting into practice a few of the key concepts covered in the book.

More to the point of your post, I switched from shaking and sloshing the carboy to using pure O2 and a diffuser stone after reading the above book.

 

[whoaru99]

Inasmuch as time and effort, perhaps, but I'm not sure about end result as long as the wort has been sufficiently aerated (the time and effort element).

 

[Dolomieu]

I use a as diffuser, HEPA filter and aquarium pump. Aerate for for ten minutes or more.