Yankchef
New Member
ok now I know that i am new and you guys have probably heard this before but i have scoured the net to find if this has happened to anyone and i havent seen anyone.
This was my 6th batch and i wanted to do a high gravity pumpkin ale sorta like pumking. I roasted a 20# pumpkin and cleaned it and mashed it with my 6row for about 4 hours, did my process like i had been, og= about 1.085. Yeast nutrient added and two dry pack of nottingham yeast game on.
The next day i get up early and am gone all day and when i came home the fermentation was so aggressive that it literally blew the lid off of my fermenter and the krausen was practically coming out of the bucket.
After some research I realized what i needed to do was a blow off tube which i set up and let go overnight, the next day it had calmed down i put the airlock on and thought everything was ok. Well it went from hyper aggressive fermentation to none, no bubbles at all.
So i took an airlock reading today which is about 2 days after i pitched and the reading was 1.02. Is this even possible? fermentation that fast seems just absolutely insane, everything about this just seems nuts, i am concerned that there is something wrong with the fermenter because when the lid blew off the rubber lining fell out and i put it back in but maybe the seal isnt right, should i move it to another fermenter?
This was my 6th batch and i wanted to do a high gravity pumpkin ale sorta like pumking. I roasted a 20# pumpkin and cleaned it and mashed it with my 6row for about 4 hours, did my process like i had been, og= about 1.085. Yeast nutrient added and two dry pack of nottingham yeast game on.
The next day i get up early and am gone all day and when i came home the fermentation was so aggressive that it literally blew the lid off of my fermenter and the krausen was practically coming out of the bucket.
After some research I realized what i needed to do was a blow off tube which i set up and let go overnight, the next day it had calmed down i put the airlock on and thought everything was ok. Well it went from hyper aggressive fermentation to none, no bubbles at all.
So i took an airlock reading today which is about 2 days after i pitched and the reading was 1.02. Is this even possible? fermentation that fast seems just absolutely insane, everything about this just seems nuts, i am concerned that there is something wrong with the fermenter because when the lid blew off the rubber lining fell out and i put it back in but maybe the seal isnt right, should i move it to another fermenter?