Best Way to Aerate Without Stone???

[TheMadHopper]

Basic Brewing Radio did an experiment on this and found that shaking a carboy actually worked BETTER than an O2 stone.

[andy77]

Basic Brewing Radio did an experiment on this and found that shaking a carboy actually worked BETTER than an O2 stone.

If I remember correctly, it was an aeration stone not an O2 stone.

[robert4136]

http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/brewing-equipment/fermenting-equipment/aeration/siphon-sprayer.html

I use a siphon sprayer with every batch and now i hit it with an O2 stone for a bit just for extra insurance. the sprayer thins out the wort flowing into your primary fermenter and allows increased O2 pickup. The trick with these things is keeping them in a straight position while your siphoning. Otherwise, the wort will hit the sprayer on an angle and not be effective.

rob

[Pharmbrewer]

I pour my cooled wort into my bottling bucket (good use for it as Im kegging now) through a strainer over my hop bags then I open the spigot on the bottleing bucket letting the wort splash down into the carboy. Works well and serves the double purpose of removing trub and aerating. However I really have no basis for comparison as I have never used o2. But I always seem to get good fast starts (relative to the yeast I happen to be using).

Prost.
PB

[grainman]

havn`t tried this yet , but take a look at this

http://www.kettlemoraine.com/mikesbeerpage/gadgets.php

.......or this

http://hbd.org/jdbrown/aerator.htm

[Kbar]

Basic Brewing Radio did an experiment on this and found that shaking a carboy actually worked BETTER than an O2 stone.

I may be wrong but didn't BYO magazine place shaking the fermenter last in the 3 setups? O2 and diffuser, air pump and filter and then finally the mechanical aeration via shaking.