A Wort Study

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Data will be interesting.

Great project!  Can’t wait for results!

Don’t worry, you would probably be acquitted in a court of law for murdering a Brew Bucket.  :smiley:

Looking forward to the results

This is what I’m most interested in.  Thanks for doing this.

Solid data is a good thing, even if it points me in a direction I can’t go, at least I know.

Sounds awesome! I’m guessing the plan is to perform this with a lager yeast, or will you replicate with multiple strains? Seems like something that could be affected by yeast strain, pH, temperature, and a handful of other factors. Excited to see how it turns out!

Don’t care for the dig at other bloggers though.

Is that an optical oxygen sensor? It needs to be, since a standard oxygen sensor consumes oxygen in order for it to make the measurement.

Would you expect any less?

I expect great information from the study though.

Great- not citizen science, eh?  Where will this work of professional science be published?  How many replicates of your experiments will there be?  Who is funding it?  Who will be the peer reviewers be?

All results from this testing phase are being posted at the LOB website in the ‘Science and Testing’ forum.
The posts can be found here: http://www.lowoxygenbrewing.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=11

I see no “dig” at any other specific bloggers (yet).

Yeast Oxygen Scavenging testing is complete. Aside from Bilsch’s testing on this matter years ago, I haven’t seen any “blogging” on the subject.  If anyone’s “work” is being tested here, it would be Bilsch.  You’ll also find him on the LOB website giving thanks to the testing and quantifying of the process.  Bilsch provided a solid foundation and process on YOS, and Beerery just dialed it in with minimum required ingredients and time needed.  Beerery learned from Bilsch, and then Bilsch learned from Beerery.  Nice to see people working together.

As for the Wort Study, it’s already underway (nearly complete).  Again, no “dig” at anyone.  Just accurate measuring and quantifying of various yeast-related processes happening during the fermentation stage.  We all ALREADY knew that yeast uptake oxygen during initial stages of fermenation, but how long does that take?  The results show the minute-by-minute uptake in this particular scenario.  Same with pH: we already knew the pH drops during fermenation, but how much and fast?  The results are shown minute-by-minute.

I believe that when Beerery says he’s had enough “citizen science” that he merely is saying that he’s tired of the usual statements (i.e. “yeast uptake the oxygen during fermenation”, “pH drops during fermenation”) without any quantification or measurements of those statements.  In this particular case: He wants to know how fast the oxygen is used up when starting at a known ppm, and how quickly the pH shifts and to what extent.  So do I for that matter, and now I have an idea for a particular kind of beer fermented in a particular way.  I’m happy to be witness to this kind of testing where I can actually watch the logged measurements by the minute, rather than get a end result statement from someone that you just have to take the word for.  This is definitely upping the game to a level I’m unwilling to afford in my own home brewery.  It’s good stuff.  Stuff we’ve already known but never had accurate measurements of from a homebrewer on the homebrewing level.

Wort study can be found here: http://www.lowoxygenbrewing.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1556

This is great example of how different people have different reasons and goals in HOMEbrewing.  Obviously, there are people who really care about this info.  Then there are those like me who find it somewhere between mild interest and a yawn.  Neither attitude is wrong, neither attitude is right for everyone.  That’s what makes HOMEbrewing so great.

In his article The Tradition of Foreign Export Stout in Craft Beer and Brewing, Drew hit the nail on the head:

“These days, it seems we are not much for subtlety. Whether it’s politics, religion, beer, haze, or clarity, we are deeply, deeply divided into our various tribes. The more extreme we can make it, the more attention it grabs. The middle is never a very hyped position…”

It is interesting how we all get something different from the hobby. I just finished chilling a batch and I’m already thinking about the next one, looking at the calendar to see which day(s) might be best to brew again.

have to admit - every once in a while, I like what I write.

Somebody has to… ;D

I would have thought the home of “RDWHAHB”, wouldn’t have nearly the most anti-RDWHAHB of all. Noted, I will remember to not lend information to this “tribe” and stick with my own (AHA promotes segregation? I guess?).
Cheers, RDWHAHB?

Can’t see where you get that, but it’s your choice.

I don’t get it. 
This tribe member is still interested in all new info.

To which tribe member might you be referring in particular?  Let us know so we can smack him until he relaxes.  If you’re talking about that one guy, never mind that one, he only shows up here every couple of months.  Not sure what tribe he’s from.  Hell… I don’t even know which tribe I’m from.  If there’s a tribe for a guy who listens to all the inputs, forms strong opinions, only to flip-flop and change his mind later, that might be the tribe I’m from.  Sometimes.  Maybe.  In other news, I am now fermenting in tall glass vases.  But I digress.