My Barley Wine Learning Experience - Page 2

fargo234 · 09-04-2011, 05:15 AM

It is my understanding that ancient Egyptians had open fermentation. The krausen became hard enough to protect the beer. They'd drink it by simply jabbing a straw down into the beer.

Personally I'd have re-sanitized the lid and lock, scraped the cap off the krausen and sealed it. If tasted bad at racking, then toss it. Otherwise, it's not really a poor time investment to find out.

I've only had to scrape my beer off the ceiling once. I didn't use a bucket, it was a 6 gallon carboy. Goo was still oozing out the neck when I got home. I kept it, and it turned out as planned. Which was awesome. As planned = awesome.

Beezy · 09-04-2011, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by fargo234

It is my understanding that ancient Egyptians had open fermentation. The krausen became hard enough to protect the beer. They'd drink it by simply jabbing a straw down into the beer.

Personally I'd have re-sanitized the lid and lock, scraped the cap off the krausen and sealed it. If tasted bad at racking, then toss it. Otherwise, it's not really a poor time investment to find out.

I've only had to scrape my beer off the ceiling once. I didn't use a bucket, it was a 6 gallon carboy. Goo was still oozing out the neck when I got home. I kept it, and it turned out as planned. Which was awesome. As planned = awesome.

Lots of commercial breweries do open fermentation. Especially in Germany and Belgium. Was just reading how SN wanted to make a legit weizen so they installed open tanks. And they do other beers in them too. Thing is, the rooms that they are in a super clean. It's not like your dirty basement.

**H-ost** · 09-18-2011, 07:46 PM

Such emotion... such

RAW

emotion....

**passedpawn** · 09-18-2011, 07:57 PM

I laughed, I cried. What a gut-wrenching production. But at least you cleaned your floors.

Funny, I had a similar experience: my first and only barleywine exploded and did a Vesuvius for 8 hours. Lost about a third of it to the blowoff. Word to the wise: don't oxygenate your barleywine wort if you're pitching onto a yeast cake.

[btw, what is it about violins. Is there any instrument more human? ]

Juicepig · 09-21-2011, 02:56 PM

I recently had the same thing happen with a moderate gravity IPA. I almost threw it out, but then I thought to myself, "It doesn't cost me anything to rack it to the secondary and wait to see if it is infected." Turns out it wasn't, drank some last night. I'm glad I had the patience.

drawdy10 · 10-26-2011, 04:54 AM

Can believe you dumped it!!!!

**unionrdr** · 10-26-2011, 04:19 PM

My wife's 1.042 summer ale clone blew the lid off,tried to launch the blow off tube,blew krausen like Mt St Helen's. We refused to give up! It now has an airlock,& is slowly finishing up. My Burton ale was a 1.065,& it didn't do any of that with 28g of re-hydrated yeast pitched.