airlock bubbling over!!

nolabrew85 said:

I am on the third day of a fermentation of a high gravity ale. Almost immediately after adding a smack pack of trappist hg, ithe airlock began bubbling. The next day and still now it has bubbling VERY aggressively, so much so, that when I got home tonight, it the airlock was bubbling over and the water in the airlock is murky so that you cannot see through it, but the gas coming out the airlock smells great. Should I be concerned about anything? Make any changes or os this just a high gravity thing?

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CTR08 said:

you can get it going today, just shove the hose from your syphon in the rubber stopper you put your airlock into and feed the other end into a pitcher of water

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HopLife said:

Don't sweat it. You simply have an active fermentation which is better than a slow fermentation which tends to lead to tired yeast that are not predictable and create off flavors. With any beer with OG over 1.055 or so expect to get a serious amount of activity if you prepare the yeast well and give them a good medium to grow. Keep in mind that beers with a high starting gravity will also take longer to achieve terminal gravity and even longer to actually taste good compared to most lower gravity beers.

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pdxal said:

If the yeast you are talking about is Wyeast 3787 that is typical behavior for it. Starts a little slow, then blows up. After things are settled down, and fermentation appears to have stopped or are stopping ramp up the temperature to the mid 70's to be sure it finishes.

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