tranceamerica
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SWMBO asks when I can remove my tube from the blowoff. I thought the answer is either "never" or when the krausen stops coming out of the tube.
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ShortSnoutBrewing
Kwanesum Chinook Illahee
I think you're the second to ask this, just today. You're thoughts are correct. Either never, or when krausen falls. Personally, I say why mess with it and let it be till I'm ready to transfe.r
ohiobrewtus
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If the blowoff was vigorous then I remove the blowoff tube after the agressive fermentation is over and replace it with an airlock. Leaving a bucket of water with that much gunk in it tends to smell after a week or 2.
ShortSnoutBrewing
Kwanesum Chinook Illahee
ohiobrewtus
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True, but if it's so dirty that it needs emptied then the need for a blowoff is likely over.
tranceamerica
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how true, how true.
ShortSnoutBrewing
Kwanesum Chinook Illahee
I beg to differ. I've had plenty an active fermentation that required the device I was using to be dumped and replaced. Either a small LME pail, up to a 12 - 16qt pot.
I just say why test it. Leave it on till you transfer. In the other thread on this subject this morning someone shared a story of thinking it was done, put on an airlock, and the thing blew.
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