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I just came across this product, the Brookstone Aero Wine Aerator, and was wondering if anyone has experience with something like this or if anyone has used it.

http://www.brookstone.com/aero-full-bottle-wine-aerator

Unless there is a reason you are looking at this, for wine or something. Looks like a waste of money for what it does. Plus would not be of much good for beer because you want to aerate the wort prior to fermentation, for carbonation of beer you want CO2 not air, air will oxidize your finished beer.

Get yourself an fishtank aerator, put a small filter inline and aerate the wort prior to fermentation or get an O2 tank.

CRBrewHound wrote:Unless there is a reason you are looking at this, for wine or something. Looks like a waste of money for what it does. Plus would not be of much good for beer because you want to aerate the wort prior to fermentation, for carbonation of beer you want CO2 not air, air will oxidize your finished beer.

Get yourself an fishtank aerator, put a small filter inline and aerate the wort prior to fermentation or get an O2 tank.

I think he meant using this in your carboy to aerate your wort prior to pitching.

yeah def not what you want to aerate before fermentation....buy a paint stirrer and a drill if you want to go that route...

that thing will not be strong enough to do anything in 5 gallons....maybe if you are making 1 gallon batches...but in that case they are pretty easy to just shake..

FnNewGuy wrote:

CRBrewHound wrote:Unless there is a reason you are looking at this, for wine or something. Looks like a waste of money for what it does. Plus would not be of much good for beer because you want to aerate the wort prior to fermentation, for carbonation of beer you want CO2 not air, air will oxidize your finished beer.

Get yourself an fishtank aerator, put a small filter inline and aerate the wort prior to fermentation or get an O2 tank.

I think he meant using this in your carboy to aerate your wort prior to pitching.

Definitely would not work for a carboy it is sized to do a wine bottle, the top of a carboy is much bigger then a wine bottle and that aerator would not seal the top of a carboy and the wand for the aerator is not long enough for a carboy.

Speaking of aeration....has anyone set up a rig to inject straight air off of a compressor??? With an inline filter of course.....reason I'm asking is a friend says it's better than straight O2......will have to ask more ?'s next time I see him.

Aeration is one of many aspects of brewing where methods are plentiful and your own mileage may vary. Sure you know a guy who doesn't aerate and his beer tastes fine right? Chris White of White Labs fame and Jamil Zainasheff wrote a book on yeast cleverly titled: Yeast. Go buy it and prepare to have your world rocked.

According to Whitey and JZ, for a healthy fermentation you must have 8 to 10 ppm of dissolved oxygen.

Shaking for 5 minutes yields 2.71ppm
pure O2 for 30 seconds yields 5.12ppm
pure O2 for 60 seconds yields 9.20ppm
pure O2 for 90 seconds yields 14.08ppm

Most wort splashing devices yield ~4ppm

an aquarium pump even with a sintered stone will not yield more than 8ppm no matter how long it runs.

Boom.

Choose your destiny.

Bought this setup today! I got the regulator for $25 and the stone for $15 and the hose for $1 from my local brew shop. I went to Home Depot and spent $9 on the Oxygen. From what I can tell this is one of the best ways to get your wort and yeast to be happy!

See link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/102045522@N02/9862789325/

Cheers!