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Posted: **Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:44 am**

Does it hurt to swirl or shake my primary fermentation bucket when the fermentation gets toward the end to shake up the yeast?

Posted: **Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:48 am**

Swirling gently is OK, shaking to a froth is probably less good if taken to extreme and not any more effective.

Posted: **Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:10 pm**

What if the head space is purged with CO2 and there is no threat of oxygen pick up or contamination? Doe the same rule of rousing still apply?

Posted: **Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:53 pm**

I would think you would want to keep that yeast that fell out early and may be in early stages of autolysis buried under the other stuff. I don't know, I'm no microbiologist.

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