First airlock explosion. Crazy

After about 4 years of brewing i've had my first airlock go flying and paint the ceiling. I brewed a 4 gallon batch of what will be a 120 minute ipa clone and i poured it onto a nottingham yeast cake from a previous batch and into a 6 gallon better bottle. It was fermenting within 3 hours and this morning I found an airlock on the floor and a new color on my walls. I thought 2 gallons of head space would be enough but it definately wasn't. I feel like an experienced brewer and i'm proud of it

It didn't happen unless there are pictures! LOL

I cleaned up right away but i got one picture of the carboy.

Sweet!

LOL-what did your spouse have to say about the new paint job?

Nice it looks like a chocolate mate gone bad or a rootbeer float.... LOL

Oh nice one! I've only had this happen once and it was in a 6g better bottle and wasn't even my beer to boot. My FIL brewed with me one day and decided to leave it at my house while it fermented. Needless to say I got to scrub double chocolate stout off the bottom of the basement stairs for a good hour the next morning.

Congrats on joining the club!

Do you have it sitting in time out for being a bad boy?

I have had blow off tubes blow up before lol, luckily I have only had smallish messes to clean up and not shattered glass

remman4 said:

I have had blow off tubes blow up before lol, luckily I have only had smallish messes to clean up and not shattered glass

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Don't scare me like that. I always use a blow off

Awesome stuff!

I got the call one day at work "that my beer blew up"! Needless to say I had to repaint the bathroom!!!

Grumpybumpy said:

Do you have it sitting in time out for being a bad boy?

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Haha yeah kinda. My house thermostat is about a foot above the carboy so I put the carboy there for poor man's temp control. Maybe it blew up cuz it was pissed about time out