Brew Tip: Oxygenate Your Wort

A few different ways of oxygenating or aerating your wort

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• Immo
• Immolateus
• all-grain
• brewing
• brew
• all grain
• mash
• sparge
• yeast
• beer
• oxygenate
• aerating
• O2
• ferment
• Brewing
• Drink

[mattyblues101]

the wyeast staff said shaking the fermenter is very effective for o2

[immolateus]

@mattyblues101 I am sure that shaking would be better than nothing if there was no other method available. You should check out a book called "Yeast: Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation" written by some yeast experts; Chris White (White Labs) and Jamil Zainasheff (Biochem UC Davis) on page 79 they compare aeration methods. Shaking 5min accomplished 2.71ppm, Pure O2 60sec9.20 ppm, Target ppm for average wort & yeast strain 8-10ppm. Shaking is way to much effort in my opinion.

[Anonx82]

Where did you find the red oxygen tank from?

[immolateus]

@Anonx82 HomeDepot or Lowe's or just about any hardware store that sells welding supplies....regulator & stone are from williamsbrewing

[andrewt248]

Pure O2 FTW.  Williams Brewing kit is priceless.

[immolateus]

@andrewt248 I love it...works great...fermentation time cut in half

[GLeonGarcia]

@billybrown83 can you use peroxide to sanitize the stone?

[Anonx82]

@immolateus Thank you

[1jerryf]

Not to be picky but Oxygen is not flammable, but it is a hell of an accelerator for something that is flammable. Biggest misconception in the history of the world.

[andrewt248]

@immolateus - I Pitched a 1099 Whitbread Ale yeast starter into a brown ale oxygenated with the Williamss Brewing Kit yesterday at 2:30pm and it was building kreusen by 6:30pm. It was blowing foam out the blow-off tube at 6:30 am today. Amazing.