blow off tube question

so yesterday i brewed my first fruit beer using 8+ lbs of cherries. now i'm using a 6.5 gallon fermenting bucket for stage one, but in the interest of avoiding a blow off, i replaced the airlock with a blow off tube. i fit a piece of tubing through the rubber gromet in the lid and fed the other end into an old growler bottle.

the question is, do i just leave the end open to atmosphere aka sitting in the bottle or should i have it in a few inches of water similar to the airlock concept?

thanks for the help.

Put it in water. Otherwise, there's not really an "airlock". Your beer is potentially exposed to nasties.

talleymonster said:

Put it in water. Otherwise, there's not really an "airlock". Your beer is potentially exposed to nasties.

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Yep what he said!
JJ

This was taken from Stonehelm


Click here to read a little more about airlocks

You might try using bleachy water or some other sanitizer in your bucket, to help keep the tube aseptic.

I use a little bit of sanitizer in mine.