brown ale - volcano

megan said:

so i started my brown ale (OG was 1.062 - i know a little high for a brown) last night and headed to bed around midnight. i woke up to check on it at about 5 a.m. and noticed the usual bubbling through the airlock. but it was obvious a lot of beer was bubbling up through it as well. so i went to take off the airlock and clean it out, and boom! the rubber stopper popped out flinging foam and brown gunk everywhere. also caused a beer volcano and lost about 1/2 gallon of beer all over the kitchen. fun stuff... anyway, here is my issue: what do i do now?

1. leave the beer in the 5 gallon carboy until time to bottle.

2. transfer after a week or so to another 5gallon carboy and top off with 1/2 gallon water, thus diluting the beer but preventing oxidization.

3. transfer to get off the trub but don't top off.

what does everyone think i should do?

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telemarc said:

On the same topic, I am about to brew a California Common (Steam Ale), and it is brewed with lager yeast, which ferments at around 60F. So my plan was to rack it right into a 5 gallon glass carboy. Do you think that if I rig a blowoff tube I'll be ok? At lower fermentation temps, I don't foresee a vigorous fermentation.

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telemarc said:

On the same topic, I am about to brew a California Common (Steam Ale), and it is brewed with lager yeast, which ferments at around 60F. So my plan was to rack it right into a 5 gallon glass carboy. Do you think that if I rig a blowoff tube I'll be ok? At lower fermentation temps, I don't foresee a vigorous fermentation.

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megan said:

thanks! i will leave it in the 5 gallon carboy.
i think with making wine, it's more important to not have a lot of air space at the top, but not SO much with beer.

no problem telemarc - it's all interesting

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