Krausen Explosion sorta

This is my third batch, and first stout, I pitched yeast yesterday at about 4, it started bubbling around 9:30 and this morning my keezer (now fermenter chamber) was covered in krausen. I cleaned 90% of the mess before rigging an overflow, but as my first MacGyver over flow, I want to make sure I am doing it correctly.

I had some keg beer line and it fit in the grommet, which I ran to a cup full of sanitized water (I will buy vodka later today) and placed the discharge just below the water line to keep air from back flowing.

Attached is a pic.

Looks fine. You probably won't need the vodka in the overflow cup but it won't hurt, either. I use plain water in my bubble locks.

unionrdr said:

Looks fine to me,but I'd use a container bigger than a glass. The blow off can be substantial.

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I will use a gallon jug, should hold it. Thanks for the quick reply.

IMHO, even rot-gut vodka is too expensive to use in airlocks. Just fill up a spray bottle with star san solution every brew day and you can use a few squirts from that to top up airlocks. For a blow-off setup, you'd probably need to keep a bucket or at least a jug of it around.

Was going to use a gallon spring water bottle, not a gallon of vodka

on a side note, it calmed down a bit, not spitting anymore, just bubbeling away.

I love making beer.

Wait, I was talking about filling airlocks or blowoff containers with vodka.

Obviously, if you have empty vodka containers around, then go ahead and use them.

I was just saying that putting actual vodka in, even the cheap crap, is way more expensive than just using star san. Wasn't trying to say that there's anything wrong with using an empty vodka jug.