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Date: 05 Dec 2006 19:15:17
From: colin
Subject: short volume in secondary
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Hi everybody,
This is my first time using a secondary fermenter (5 gal glass carboy)
and I just siphoned from my primary into it. There is a good bit of
space left at the top which I figure is full of evil dirty things like
oxygen. Should I boil some water and top it off? That seems so...
diluting...
Thanks!
c
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Date: 06 Dec 2006 03:23:57
From: DragonTail
Subject: Re: short volume in secondary
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colin wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> This is my first time using a secondary fermenter (5 gal glass carboy)
> and I just siphoned from my primary into it. There is a good bit of
> space left at the top which I figure is full of evil dirty things like
> oxygen. Should I boil some water and top it off? That seems so...
> diluting...
>
> Thanks!
> c
Don't add any water to it. That will just dilute you beer. Depending
on how your fermentation went, there should be yeast "working' in there
producing CO2 that will push out the O2. Even the act of racking will
cause some of the dissolved CO2 to come out of solution and push the O2
out. Just leave it and you'll be fine.
Cheers,
--
Michael Herrenbruck
Dragon Tail Ale
Drunken Bee Mead
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Date: 06 Dec 2006 09:25:09
From: Carter Cathey
Subject: Re: short volume in secondary
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Even if there is not enough CO2 to completely purge the head-space, the CO2
that comes out of solution is heavier than air and will have a
blanket-effect over your beer. Avoid agitating the beer if you are
concerned about it, but everything will be fine.
Carter
"DragonTail" <" DragonTail281"@gmail.com > wrote in message
news:hJqdh.14098$L32.8725@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> colin wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> This is my first time using a secondary fermenter (5 gal glass carboy)
>> and I just siphoned from my primary into it. There is a good bit of space
>> left at the top which I figure is full of evil dirty things like oxygen.
>> Should I boil some water and top it off? That seems so... diluting...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> c
> Don't add any water to it. That will just dilute you beer. Depending on
> how your fermentation went, there should be yeast "working' in there
> producing CO2 that will push out the O2. Even the act of racking will
> cause some of the dissolved CO2 to come out of solution and push the O2
> out. Just leave it and you'll be fine.
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Michael Herrenbruck
> Dragon Tail Ale
> Drunken Bee Mead
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Date: 06 Dec 2006 16:52:58
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: short volume in secondary
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On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:15:17 -0800, <colin@reply.via.usenet > wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> This is my first time using a secondary fermenter (5 gal glass carboy)
> and I just siphoned from my primary into it. There is a good bit of
> space left at the top which I figure is full of evil dirty things like
> oxygen. Should I boil some water and top it off? That seems so...
> diluting...
Don't add water, you'll just dilute the beer. The extra headspace is
nothing to worry about. There's probably very little oxygen left in
there anyway. Usually there's still some fermentation activity left when
you rack to secondary, so the CO2 created would help purge the headspace.
Even if there wasn't, just racking the beer will knock out some residual
CO2 that will help purge.
IMO, nothing to worry about. Just leave it alone.
John.
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Date: 06 Dec 2006 12:33:16
From: colin
Subject: Re: short volume in secondary
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> Don't add water, you'll just dilute the beer.
Awesome. That's what I wanted to hear. Thanks,
c
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