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qds?

Thanks to you both for your replies! I've been brewing for a good long while now and have never before had a pronounced problem with oxidation (can't say that it's never happened) so figured my process was good enough. Even had big hopped beers last over a year with little change in quality...

I use sanke kegs so I sanitize the kegs using boiled water followed by purging. The killer for me is that I have to remove the spear for transfer which gives the possibility for oxidation even though I am as gentle as possible while using a racking cane. I just got some standoffs for the bottom...

Yeah I have CO2 access but I don’t quite understand doing ‘close transfers’ to the keg. Also, tge bottles seem like the problem not the kegs. Do you mean push out of the FC via CO2? in hindsight, the 3rd dry hop was a mistake so I’ll fix that. But are we really talking priming individual...

I'm fairly new to brewing this style and, as a result, I'm still figuring out the pitfalls. One of the things that I absolutely didn't appreciate is the sensitivity of these beers to oxidation, assuming that's what I'm seeing. I brewed 14 gallons of pretty standard fare hazy: 19# pilsner malt...