Welcome to the spackle club

I have had my official blow out last night and feel like I'm now in the club. To see the face on my fiance was priceless... Question, my beer was without airlock for about 3 hours before I woke up this morning. There was a very steady flow of foam out of the top of the car boy. The evidence is covering the majority of my kitchen floor. Is this batch running the risk of being infected or do you think it will be good????

Install a blowoff tube, and let it run it's course. Crack open a beer and clean up the mess before your wife sees it if that applies. Lesson learned. If it's bad, then dump it, if it ain't, drink it.
Actually, since it was pushing out it would keep most nasties out, as they are not salmon-related and don't swim upstream. Relax, welcome to the club, and let us know how it turns out.

your next mission regardless of whether you choose to or not is to construct a blow off tube

Woah, what are you, some kind of plumber? Seriously, great idea, but how is the tube connected to the carboy? I gotta build one of those...

I agree, nice set-up. Any measurements? (I know I can do it, but since you made several you probably wrote them down).

I think your brew will be fine since the foam was flowing ourward so were the gasses.

brewhead said:

your next mission regardless of whether you choose to or not is to construct a blow off tube

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Did you cut the centers out of those bungs?

one regular carboy bung drilled out
two 1/2"ID hard els
one 5" length and one 21" length of 1/2"ID PVC

friction fit to allow breakdown and ease of cleaning with my bottle brush.

the 1/2"id pvc fits nice and snug into the bung. i drilled them out a bit to facilitate the flow of any blowoff or gas

that's flippin sweet

brewhead said:

one regular carboy bung drilled out
two 1/2"ID hard els
one 5" length and one 21" length of 1/2"ID PVC

friction fit to allow breakdown and ease of cleaning with my bottle brush.

the 1/2"id pvc fits nice and snug into the bung. i drilled them out a bit to facilitate the flow of any blowoff or gas

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Cool, thanks. I figured you'd need to, as that's a pretty small hole. It would kinda defeat the purposeof such big blowoff tubing!

I refitted the bung on and used some hose that I sanitized for racking and put it into my beaker that I normally make my starters with full of bleach. Now I just gotta clean up the mess. I kinda had a feeling it was gonna happen. When I made my starter, it over flowed and was very aggressive. IT seems tha the yeast I have are hopped up on juice.. hehehe

Thanks for the pictures and ideas. This forum has been excellent for quick fixes and help:rockin:

I had an overnight blowout on a batch once that ended up being one of the tastier IPA's I'd ever done...kind of makes you think those belgian guys aren't so crazy...

BREW ON

Those ARE sweet Brewhead. I'm assuming you didn't seal them for easy cleaning/sanitizing?


Ize

Ize, you are correct. friction fit is all you need. i had one of those big tubes but my closet in the kitchen that i keep the carboys in is cramped. so i went up to the brew shed and came up with these. in fact i actually think these are cheaper than that vinyl tubing. prob less than 5 bucks. now four carboys will fit in the closet under the bottom shelf and two will fit between the wall and the fridge. i'm also thinking about going down to our fab shop and making me a couple of galvanized pans that would catch any blow over so it wouldn't become a sticky mess all over the floor. kind of like the condensate pan under your air handler or the pan under your electric water heater

WOW! Nice work Brewhead.

I will definitely be making a few of these.:rockin:

He..he...he... Looks like what happened to me last night!






It's still bubbling away at about 1 bps through the tubing. At least it's stopped pushing foam.