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I had the tube and bucket for the initial blow-off. i meant to rack it into secondary to clear, but haven't found the time with work and the new baby. and from what i've read here, secondary isn't as important as we've been told, so i procrastinated a bit.

sorry, I didn't see the pictures or think anyone would make that mistake. the alt is inches, like 2 or 3 maybe, closer to the heater(infered, so it pretty much all goes straight up). it would be the cooling that would pull the water in like that though. it would have had to heat up to a...

I use glass on all my beer, just feels sexier than the better bottles. I have 2 bb's, but they're dedicated to wine kits

"That could happen easily if you put your blow-off jug on top of the fermenter or higher then the fermernter. That's why you want to keep it on the floor or lower then fermenter" Then how would you explain the fact that NO water went into the tubes of the cider and black ipa? Thanks for...

It's been in there for 6-7 weeks all the way though fermentation, so the temp was stable. I was using star san, but it was around a gallon. 6 gallon carboy is almost full and the batch was 5 gallons. I thought it had to be a temperature thing, but it wasn't, it couldn't be. I'm totally stumped.

My blow-off tube pulled about a gallon of water up into my fermentor. I've been brewing beer, wine, cider and mead for about a year now. I lurk on this forum and others inorder to answer my many questions, but I've never heard of a beer being ruined this way. Here's the set-up...My...