Oxygen Wand - 2.0 Micron
Insert the Oxygen wand into your fermenter and pump in thousands of microscopic oxygen bubbles for 1-2 minutes to improve the health of your yeast. Healthy yeast produces amazing flavours and has the stamina to completely finish fermentation.
That is not the only reason yeast love the Oxygen wand. Yeast hate to compete with bacteria and you hate to drink them. Sintered stainless stones are made of tightly compressed stainless steel powder to create a porous block through which oxygen can flow. This micro maze is also the perfect environment for bacteria to live in after the stone has been used once in wort. That is why we love to boil our stones prior to use. The stone on the Oxygen wand is connected via a 1/4" ( 6mm ) flare fitting and can easily be removed and cleaned after use and then boiled before your next brew day.
- The assembly is 660mm long and will easily reach the bottom of glass carboys, dropped into stainless conicals, fermenters, etc.
- The 2 micron size stone works well with both compressed oxygen and aeration pumps. You will want to use 5mm ID tubing.
- The advantage of using compressed oxygen to oxygenate is speed - you can oxygenate your wort in 60 seconds as opposed to 5 minutes with aeration.
- The advantage of using a pump for aeration is cost - you never have to buy compressed oxygen cylinders.