munkyhead8
Member
Welp, just learned this the hard way. I made a tripel about 3 weeks ago and needed to use a blowoff (big one in a glass carboy.) We had a pretty good freeze in the last week and my brew room dropped to around 45 degrees and the temp change sucked back the nasty yeast/sanitizer/lord knows what water in the overflow bottle. . . I use a big honey jar and it sucked back probably 1/2 gallon of it. Needless to say, I don't think there is much hope for this tripel. Learn from my mistake. . .