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	FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
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Contents:
  Oxygenation (David Kudrav)
  Water ("Keith Christian")


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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:56:58 -0600 (CST)
From: David Kudrav <dkudrav at hiwaay.net>
Subject: Oxygenation

Recent discussions have raised the following questions in my mind:

1.  I've never gone out of my way to oxygenate, other than using a funnel
with a filter after cooling the wort to transfer from my boil pot to my
fermenter (filter and funnel to remove hops and debris from bottom of boil
pot).  But I've never noticed any type of problem with my beer without
forced oxygenation.  Should I force oxygenate, with a stone & gas
tank?--what difference would I notice in my beer?  Other people have had 
my beers and like them (ie, no obvious problems with most batches).

2.  What of olive oil as substitute for oxygenation?  I've read an article 
or two about this, but am not sure I'm convinced of it.  Is the chemistry 
sound, or is it bunk?  Does anyone use this method?  What are the results?

Thanks,

Dave Kudrav



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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:44:13 -0800
From: "Keith Christian" <keithchristian at roadrunner.com>
Subject: Water

Hi,

My Anaheim CA water is unbelievably hard.  When sanitizing, I have been
using RO water with StarSan.  I want to use my tap water that has gone
through the water softener instead.  Will that work alright? I want to
stop using the RO water for sanitizing.

Thanks,

Keith




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