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Well it's my second batch. Things were going a lot better on making the wort. It's the fermenting getting me this time.




Woke up to an active carboy. No big deal.
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Later I come out and found my bubbler on the ground. I just put it back on without washing it. As you can see in the picture all of the chunks came out.


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After that it happened again and blew up to the roof. It broke my bubbler. So I went to the store and bought tubing. And attached it to the siphon down stem into a 5 gallon bucket.



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I tried to return as fast as I could. Taking close to 20 mins. Is that to long for it to be in open air?
 
I'm kind of new myself but what I can tell you is... I did this except much worse on my first batch blew the whole bung and airlock clear off to the ceiling at night and I didn't find it till morning... haha my wife was PISSED when she saw the ceiling of our spare bathroom. This is what they told me when I ran to homebrewtalk like ahhhh help! Damage control, you already set up the blow off I see, thats all you can do, mine turned out just fine. I was told just remain calm maybe pray its not infected and wait and see what happens but you should be ok, and they were right on, i prayed it didn't get infected and let it run its course from there on and still had an awesome first brew
 
I wouldnt worry- you have a healthy, active fermentation going on there, so there is still CO2 being forced up the carboy, most likely with enough flow/pressure to keep anything else from getting in.
 
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