Home Brewing Tools : Home-Brewing Oxygenation Kit

Home-brewing oxygenation kits shoot oxygen directly into the wort. Acquire an oxygenation kit with tips from a master brewer in this free video on beverage making.

Expert: John Brack
Contact: www.AustinHomebrew.com
Bio: John Brack has been brewing his own beer and wine for more than 15 years, and has been on-staff with Homebrew Supply for more than 11 years.
Filmmaker: MAKE | MEDIA

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Hello. My name is J.B. I work at Austin Homebrew
Supply in Austin, Texas. And, doing a little
discussion on beer making and wine making.
The process, equipment, and procedure that
you would need to know so that you could make
a good quality batch of home brew beer or
wine at your house. So, one of the things
that we're going to discuss right now is oxygenation.
At the end of the brewing process, especially
in beer making, in this instance, the end
of the boiling process, you boil together
water, and barley, and hops. And you need
to chill that down and put it in your fermenter,
so that you can get your yeast into it, so
the yeast can eat the sugar, converting it
into alcohol, and making it into the beer.
Now, one of the things the yeast are going
to need is oxygen...dissolved oxygen. Generally,
as a home brewer, you can just stir it really
well, or shake it up really good to get enough
dissolved oxygen. But if you really want to
make sure that you have enough dissolved oxygen,
you'll directly shoot oxygen out of an oxygen
tank straight into the wort. So, if you go
to your local hardware store, they sell bottles
of oxygen, pure oxygen. And if you were to
pick up one of our oxygenation kits, which
goes for fifty dollars, you would simply hook
it directly to the oxygen bottle, and the
other end is a diffusion stone, which allows
the oxygen to break into really fine bubbles.
You'd hook it up, turn on the oxygen, put
the diffusion stone down in the bottom of
the fermenter, and it would just bubble up
pure oxygen into that wort, allowing for the
oxygen that the yeast are going to need in
order to process that beer. So, if you want
a really good, vigorous fermentation, try
an oxygenation kit.