Healthy Fermentation?

Hello all!

I spent 12 hours yesterday dealing with a stuck mash. Finally got the beer into fermenter around 9:30 last night. Checked it at around 7:00 am this morning and things were happy. Came home tonight around 7:30 and found it had blown the top. See pics. How do I save this beer? Please help!

Clean up the mess and use a blow off tube in place of an airlock until it calms down. No damage to the beer has occured

Can I just scrape the top of the krausen off?

SwillyBilly said:

Can I just scrape the top of the krausen off?

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Yes, sanitize a spoon and clear out a couple inches so you can get the lid back on. Clean and resanitize the lid.

Is



this going to hold?

I am doing the same thing as we speak. Yes it should hold. I myself am so excited with my first homebrew that i keep checking the bubbles from the airlock. If anything happens I'm sure ill catch it

This is my 14th and the first time this has happened. Im not longer excited. I just want to go to bed and not wake up to a mess.

Jesus that pic is scary! What temp were you at on this ferment? Did you leave any headspace in the bucket ?

Unibrow said:

Jesus that pic is scary! What temp were you at on this ferment? Did you leave any headspace in the bucket ?

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Can just imagine how the vast majority of people, non-homebrewers, would react to seeing that pic.:fro:

THAT is a vigorous fermentation:rockin:

Unibrow said:

Jesus that pic is scary! What temp were you at on this ferment? Did you leave any headspace in the bucket ?

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It's about 65 degrees in the basement there. I put 5.5 gallons in the 6.5 gallon bucket.

Ogri said:

Can just imagine how the vast majority of people, non-homebrewers, would react to seeing that pic.:fro:

THAT is a vigorous fermentation:rockin:

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Got a little on the ceiling too.

Helibrewer,

Thanks for the advice. I put on the blowoff tube and it held up fine. I'll always start with a blowoff tube from now on.