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View Poll Results: Ever been splatted by your own creation?
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11-03-2009, 10:24 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Chicago area
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Ever been covered by airlock blowout?
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I've only done about 20 batches and last night was my first crazy fermentation with some Danstar-Windsor in an Altbier. I have never needed a blow off tube and I didn't have supplies to rig one up. So I thought I had bled the pressure off the airlock and went to remove it, but the airlock was clogged so the pressure was built up before the airlock and when I went to twist it off, KERRRSPLAT! It puked on me big time.
Any good explosion stories?
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11-03-2009, 10:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Westside..... CenCal - the country that'll never take away my guns or money !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i pulled a disconnect to get a face full of beer once.
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11-03-2009, 11:17 PM
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I Like Beer
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Chicago
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11-03-2009, 11:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Westside..... CenCal - the country that'll never take away my guns or money !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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penaut butter jelly time! peanut butter jelly time!
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11-03-2009, 11:22 PM
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Zensunni Brewer
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Seattle
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Thread titles like that have mandatory picture requirements. 
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11-03-2009, 11:53 PM
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Cranky Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Willamina & Oak Grove, Oregon, USA
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No, but one of my batches hit the perfect balance of pressure and krausen formation. A fine mist of brew was spraying out of the airlock and the kitchen was not quite foggy.
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11-03-2009, 11:56 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: California
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when ever i've had a popping airlock it always seems to happen with Belgian yeast. usually makes a mess all over the floor.
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11-04-2009, 12:25 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Eastern MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen_Brew
Thread titles like that have mandatory picture requirements. |
+1
pics or shens! |
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11-04-2009, 12:32 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Home, where the beer is.
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Hasn't happened to me. I have had the airlock come off a couple times, but it's never gotten on me. In fact, the worst one just spilled krausen on the floor, the second time, it seemed to just want the airlock off. It pushed the krausen up to the airlock, pushed it out of the carboy, and fell back down.
And I do believe they were both Belgian yeasts.
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11-04-2009, 01:26 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Chicago area
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