gillin
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I boiled my new batch of Scotch Ale on Thursday evening, and then left for the weekend. When I got home today after being away the whole weekend, I checked the beer and saw that the airlock was plugged up and no gases seemed to be escaping. The krausen was pretty violent apparently. I'm not sure how long the airlock had been plugged -- two days at most. Carefully, I removed the airlock, cleaned it off, and added new water. After putting it back on the top of the carboy, I left it alone for a while. After about an hour, the bubbles were at about 1-minute increments. It has been about 3 hours now and its the same situation. It looks like there is hardly any foam at all on top of the wort. So I am wondering if the airlock being plugged up for some time disturbed the fermenting process and if so, what implications that will have on the rest of the cycle. Have you any experience with this?