I'm using 6 gallon better bottles and I'm finding that I always have to pop on a blowoff hose, even with regular non-hefe 5% ABV brews. Otherwise I will get junk blown up into the airlock.
Is that normal?
Is that normal?
switched to just using 1/4" hose into a wine bottle with beach water.
It really depends on the amount of headspace in the fermenter, and I always have enough except for that one time!
Question is: Now that my blow off hose is installed, when do I remove it? How do I know it's okay to go back to the airlock or do I just keep it in there until fermentation is done?
I brewed two batches on Saturday and put them both in bucket ferms with S-shaped airlocks. as of this morning I had to clean whiskey off the top of the buckets on 3 seperate occasions in two days. Are blowoffs necessary for buckets?
you can keep it on the entire time it's in the primary if you want. I tent to switch to a regular airlock after 5-7 days...just because it's easier to move that way.
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