New to Aeration -- Stupid Question?

[mudhut]

Ok...thanks for the suggestions. My air filter does not have any arrow (supposed to be on the outer ring white part of the disk?). Checked it 3 times. Its been kept dry.

The pump does build up pressure in the tubing when I hold my finger over the end, but does not seem very powerful. It doesn't exactly "whisper" either.

I'm going to pick up a larger pump from the pet shop and try the stone with no filter, for testing purposes. If that works I'll try the filter and aerate my wort (after sterilization). If it doesn't I'll know its the stone.

[mudhut]

After getting a new pump (and larger 40 gal.) from the pet store, the stone is kicking out bubbles like crazy. Likely a defective pump.

Thanks everyone for the help!

Judd

[Pedro]

A little late to this thread, but wanted to share that yesterday I realized that my aquarium pump was not pumping out any air into the beer, although it would push air out of the port. Anyway I ran to the nearest pet store, bought a 20-gal pump (the old one came with the B3 kit and was a Whisper-10), hooked it up, and it absolutely blasted air into the wort. Actually it only took about 10 min before I had to shut it off due to the foam it was generating. Curious if this is actually too much foam/too fast. FYI the brand of pump wasn't a Whisper (the strore only had the 100-gal version of this one) but rather some other.

[mudhut]

The 10 gal whisper seems to be what B3 and Northern Brewer are selling. My 10 gal pump didn't do a damn thing, and I'm not sure if it was defective. I ended up getting a 40 gal pump--it does kick out a lot of bubbles and would be too much foam to run continuously for a starter, but I can run it for 10 min in my 6.5 gal carboy before it gets to be too much.

[BadRock]

Curious if this is actually too much foam/too fast.

Get yourself some of this.



Also see Foam Control is great stuff

[ApresSkiBrewer]

Badrock, you do actually have this entire forum memorized... don't you?