Adding oxygen to homebrew

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A few minutes on oxygen goes a long way to making your yeast stronger. So what? Faster, more complete fermentation, that what.

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: January 3, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Author: BobbyFromNJ

Length: 00:03:05
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Cannile (June 5, 2008 at 8:28 pm)
People invest WAY too much in homebrew. While using an immersion wort-chiller, if you aggitate your wort with the wort-chiller, you will add a sufficient amount of oxygen to your beer. Using an oxygen tank and an aquarium diffuser stone is completely unnecessary.
BobbyFromNJ (June 5, 2008 at 9:07 pm)
Would you care to quote some sources for you information or are you being anecdotal?
cro200 (July 8, 2008 at 2:57 am)
Man, I got a plate chiller (the shirron), It ROX... Very good chiller, adds much more pleasure to homebrewing... Adn "trying to aggitate the wort with wort chiller?"... I think you would be increasing the risk of contamination.

If you dont want to aerate you can use the Olive Oil/Flax Oil technique... there are many sources talkin about that... Thats what I have been using latelly.
SolomonsJim (May 29, 2008 at 9:19 am)
That jnmccra person is a tool. It's a lot easier posting insults than it is to make informative videos, so thanks very much for your efforts!
BobbyFromNJ (May 29, 2008 at 9:56 am)
KGMartin is the tool, but I'm pretty sure that's what you meant.
clinteg (April 18, 2008 at 2:10 pm)
Or your could just read a little and figure out why certain ingredients are used. I brewed 2 extracts and have already made the jump to all grain with excellent results. I think 10 batches of extract is probably a little much unless you just like doing extract a lot because it's less time consuming and less variables involved. All grain isn't that hard, but there are both easy and hard ways to go about it.
Gjoker321 (April 1, 2008 at 2:50 am)
Don't mind the naysayers, they do seem to be jealous of the attention. Besides, anyone who says they know definitively how to make beer doesn't understand they are playing with dynamic living creatures in this wonderful adventure of brewing.
nuca98 (March 24, 2008 at 2:07 pm)
this is an anaerobic reaction; therefore, oxygen is not really good because it is going to oxidazed the ethanol to acetic acid.
BobbyFromNJ (March 24, 2008 at 2:49 pm)
The oxygen is added prior to fermentation and quickly used up by the yeast before Ethanol is present.
chessplayer2112 (March 24, 2008 at 9:02 pm)
Fermentation is an anaerobic process, but the yeasts' life cycle requires a period of respiration prior to fermentation. The aeration of the wort allows the yeast to respire before they begin fermentation.