jmiller3mma
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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 fermentation room temperature is pretty steady as long as the outside temperature is relatively steady. Being late November, I have a small heater in there now. In the room now I have: blueberry mead aging, Edwort's Apple Wine finishing up, blackberry wine finishing up, cider about 3 weeks into fermentation, black ipa clearing up in the primary, and now a ruined batch of german alt. I tend to have an obsessive personality, so I check on my booze often, and all the temps have been very stable around 65 degrees. The alt, black ipa, and cider were all on blow-off tubes and the only one to pull any water even alittle into the tube was the alt. I just can't wrap my head around the physics of it and was hoping someone here could educate me. This was the first beer that my brother and I brewed together, so that motivated me so seek out an answer. Oh, and a search brought me nothing even related. Thank you.