RevBrewer
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Hi all!
I had to share some photos of this past Monday's Brew Day with my new NB Megapot 1.2. I also tried some ideas I've been wanted to experiment with to aerate the wort.
1. The kettle with my ingredients for Ceilidh Irish Stout.
2. The set-up for sending the wort through my homemade CFC.
3. The venturi tube I rigged up with some tubing and a 1/2" x 1/2" x 1/2" barb tee fitting. It worked quite well to aerate the wort as it flowed out of the CFC.
4. Using a wine degasser to pump even more air into the wort in the carboy.
5. The carboy ready to go into a dark, quiet closet for a week before racking to the secondary(maybe; still debating whether I need to do secondary fermentation with this beer).
It's been one day and already I can tell that aeration paid off. The usual fermentation lag phase was greatly reduced and I've seen lots of activity today! More later once everything is complete!
I had to share some photos of this past Monday's Brew Day with my new NB Megapot 1.2. I also tried some ideas I've been wanted to experiment with to aerate the wort.
1. The kettle with my ingredients for Ceilidh Irish Stout.
2. The set-up for sending the wort through my homemade CFC.
3. The venturi tube I rigged up with some tubing and a 1/2" x 1/2" x 1/2" barb tee fitting. It worked quite well to aerate the wort as it flowed out of the CFC.
4. Using a wine degasser to pump even more air into the wort in the carboy.
5. The carboy ready to go into a dark, quiet closet for a week before racking to the secondary(maybe; still debating whether I need to do secondary fermentation with this beer).
It's been one day and already I can tell that aeration paid off. The usual fermentation lag phase was greatly reduced and I've seen lots of activity today! More later once everything is complete!