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Ingredients / Storing HOP Pellets
« on: December 11, 2012, 09:21:48 AM »He said "oxygen." When you have liquid in the PET bottle you can squeeze all the air out before capping it with the carbonator, then add CO2, but with hops, I don't think you can do that, so there will be some O2 in there, but very little.So, how does the oxygen that is in there get purged?
like any standard pin lock - depressing the poppit in the middle.
I have always assumed that the idea is to fill the container with co2, wait a bit for things to settle down in there and then purge through a top opening which should get most of the o2 out as it will have migrated to the top portion of the container. still some o2 but a lot less
That's not how gases work. Otherwise, basements would be deadly. :-)