Originally Posted by Airborneguy

I ferment my lagers in frozen mammoths 3 miles below the ice in Greenland. I scream at my hop plants for 8 hours a day to make them not only bitter, but pissed off.

Originally Posted by Airborneguy

I ferment my lagers in frozen mammoths 3 miles below the ice in Greenland. I scream at my hop plants for 8 hours a day to make them not only bitter, but pissed off.

Originally Posted by Shuznuts

Anyone have any experience with open fermentation?

I had my second fermenter blow up today. My 1st was with a belgian triple in a 5 gal carboy with no blow off hose. For my DFH clone I decided on my good old faithful 6 gal ale pail and double bubble air lock. I come home today from work and check on my brew (2 days into fermentation) and I don't hear the airlock going. I open the door and the ale pale lid is on the floor. The airlock completely gummed up and 2 feet away, kreusen everywhere. It must have been off for a while because cleaning everything up took forever because it had dried on pretty good. Anyway, I cleaned and sanitized the lid, cleaned and sanitized the lock, replaced everything. That lock is bubbling like crazy still. Jimmy cricket! That S-04 is no joke!

Anyway, I hope The batch will turn out ok. Luckily I didnt lose too much brew. I figure it was like open fermenting for a bit, so that's why I posed the question at the beginning. I just figure I'll RDWHAHB.