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[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

If you don't mind, what's your bottling process like? Mine has always been to rack from primary to a bottling bucket and bottle with a wand and I always seem to get overly oxidized hoppy beers. Do you have any specific controls to prevent oxidation in your process? I've thought about blasting my bottling bucket with CO2 before racking to see if that helps. Nothing more frustrating to me than waiting for bottles to condition only to have the beer come out oxidized.

I actually rack into a keg I purge with CO2 as if I were kegging it then I use a small amount of CO2 to pressurize the keg and use a beer gun to fill the bottles.

Its a pretty fast process and it minimizes oxygen as much as I can do.

Honestly its been so long since I bottled a hoppy beer that I cant remember when it was.