Brewsit
Well-Known Member
Currently 5 days in to fermentation of a 1.100 beer (North Coast Old Stock Ale Clone) and I realized that my vittle vault fermenter has a leak in the lid seam somewhere. I realized this when I put some pressure on the side of the fermenter, and I heard air escape the side rather than through the blow off tube. I was suspicious of this before because I haven't had much (if any) airlock activity before in this fermenter.
My question is, should I rack the beer off of this fermenter into a container that is not structurally compromised? This beer is going to have a really long primary fermentation (3-5 weeks) and I don't want to compromise it when it stops making enough CO2 to keep positive pressure from outside elements.
Obviously strict sanitary procedures, minimizing oxidation, etc would be practiced.
My question is, should I rack the beer off of this fermenter into a container that is not structurally compromised? This beer is going to have a really long primary fermentation (3-5 weeks) and I don't want to compromise it when it stops making enough CO2 to keep positive pressure from outside elements.
Obviously strict sanitary procedures, minimizing oxidation, etc would be practiced.