prepare ze blow off!!!

i should have learned ages ago, don't stuff five plus gallons of beer in a five gallon carboy and ferment....

there is condiserable build up just below the surface, i fear it is gonna get ugly soon!

8 lbs english pale
.5 lbs belgian special b
.4 lbs victory malt
a handfull of smoked malt

1 oz amarillo kettle hops
.5 oz amarillo 30minutes
.25 oz amarillo 15minutes
.25 oz amarillo flame out

california ale yeast by whitelabs.

prepares blow off!!!!

That is definitely getting ready to spew!

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company

Oh, yeah, and good luck getting that stopper out of there.

You have a blowoff tube handy?

I hope that's not in the house! I'd be worried about the 3 piece clogging and the carboy grenading, though not as worried as I'd be about SWMBO finding out.

;tis in the bomb shelter, aka the basement... it will not explode. i can take the stopper out no problem... it will get rigged with a blow off when it starts getting nuts. but untill then, it's just sport.....

Thats a cool shot of your beer...it looks like one of those see thru bowling balls


Dan

I only caught my latest Hobgoblin yesterday after arriving from work. It had started to gunk up my 3 peice and shoot out pure co2 from the tiny holes in the cover. I had my wife grab a towel while I watched for it to blow.
Luckily I caught it in time. Removed the cover and it started to spew lava like
krausen. Got a sanatized bung in with a blowoff hose and brought it into my basement.
Looking good today. Disaster averted.
I know I should have known better with using S-04 yeast slurry, but I did have 6 inches of headspace in there.
It's all but finished primary today. I figure a day or two at best will finish it. I'll rack this weekend.

How did it fare? It should be calming down by now.

not quite... pics on the way...



pretty much up to date shot