Wort Aeration with Oxygen

[Steve1262]

I don't want to sound like a killjoy but its worth touching on the aspect of safety when using oxygen in the home environment.
Although its non smelly, doesn't do you any obvious harm and is not flamable in its own right, it does promote burning extremely effectively and you can end up as a human olympic torch if you don't handle it carefully and with respect.

An example I can give as a scenario would be a homebrewer just nicely completed his boil, run off into the fermenter using his oxygen but lets say he had a bit of a problem with the cylinder thread while connecting up and ended up with a leak.
A blast of oxygen hits you square in the midriff filling the fibers of your nice Berghause fleece, you are now a walking oxygen rich environment. All goes well with the brew and you decide to celebrate and relax with a cup of tea so you walk over to the gas cooker with your filled kettle and strike up the cooker. . . . WOOF, your whole fleece is alight and burning fiercely and melting to your skin as it does so, you can't get it off cos its zipped up and in seconds you've got life threatening burns, your wife's not there to help as she is out for some retail therapy while you brew.

Nuff said. . . Take care with oxygen.

[orlando]

Finally the new regulator arrived today so now have everything I need to get started, just need to cut a piece of gas line for the connection between the flow and the airstone.

Air flow is very easy to control from zero onwards.



Now to wait for another brewday

What setting do you have the regulator to the flow meter, I assume the other gauge is just for measuring bottle contents?

[barneey]

Yes 1 gauge for bottle contents the other set very low and the just set the flow one to 1lt per min

[scotia]

Have any of you considered using an aquarium pump to achieve the same result?

[Hogarth]

Have any of you considered using an aquarium pump to achieve the same result?

You wouldn't achieve the same result. Here's the numbers.

[Belter]

Have any of you considered using an aquarium pump to achieve the same result?

You wouldn't achieve the same result. Here's the numbers.

This is all lies. Back in the day oxygen didn't even exist and they still made great beer. They used water from the local baths as well and all had open fermenters. My rabbit fell in once and nothing happened. Except the rabbit ended up drunk. We put it down.

I realise there is best practise but to be honest... it's a waste of money and my method works so... don't bother.


edit: definitely don't bother.

[barneey]

On the wyeast figures I can't see a rate at which o2 is being pumped at 1lt/m 2lt/m??

[Heron1952]

Have any of you considered using an aquarium pump to achieve the same result?

You wouldn't achieve the same result. Here's the numbers.

This is all lies. Back in the day oxygen didn't even exist and they still made great beer. They used water from the local baths as well and all had open fermenters. My rabbit fell in once and nothing happened. Except the rabbit ended up drunk. We put it down.

I realise there is best practise but to be honest... it's a waste of money and my method works so... don't bother.


edit: definitely don't bother.

Wrong forum to be satirical, you are a very naughty boy!!!

[orlando]

Have any of you considered using an aquarium pump to achieve the same result?

Yes, I have but it would need to HEPA filtered and it requires a lot longer because it isn't pure O2.

[orlando]

I realise there is best practise but to be honest... it's a waste of money and my method works so... don't bother.

You're so right. I read all this stuff which just has people disappearing up their own arseholes, pretentious twats, my beer is lovely too.

[ciderhead]

Aeration has significantly improved my trickier fermentations of Kolsch/Pilsners/Lagers and in particular High ABV styles and my disposable rig after what must be over 30+ shots was well worth the money