wort splash - aeration?

[grubac]

Gentlemen

When I sparge (continous), the wort falls a good 80 cm down to the bottom of my boiler and obviously splashes a lot. I've done some reading on this and, apparently, I should be considered about wort aeration.

Do any of kids have any experience with this? Are there really bad conquences??

cheers

grubac

[booldawg]

The Americans are keen on reducing hot side aeration. Apparently it causes more of a problem with the 6 row pale malt they use. The British 2 row malt doesnt seem to suffer any problems with it.

[nobby]

Have you noticed any stale, off flavours in your beer similar to wet cardboard ?

It isn't likely to occur, loads of homebrewers and commercial breweries pay no heed to it without any concequences. If you were to make a beer that you wanted to keep mature for a year then you might consider pushing a piece of pvc pipe over your mash tun tap that extended to the bottom of the boiler to reduce splashing but otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.

How does it cause a prolem?? I would have thought that boiling would have driven off any oxygen PDQ and killed any bugs