whoa...

So I came home yesterday and checked out the porter I have fermenting next to a batch of Apfelwein in a chest freezer. Good thing I always use a blow off tube because this baby filled up an entire growler and kept going all over the bottom of the freezer.

But that's not the whoa part.

That came about when I bent over the freezer to clean up the mess and took a breath of what I expected to be air but apparently was nothing but CO2 from 2 actively fermenting carboys. I almost wasn't able to get back up out of the freezer.

Lesson learned: Hold your breath when bending over into an airtight space in which alcohol has been fermenting.

Lol. Been there. How do you like the burn in your nose from the CO2 interacting with moisture and becoming carbolic acid?

Yeah CO2 is heavier than air... makes chest freezers dangerous to stick your head in.

I realized I had a leak in my keezer and about passed out when I stuck my head in to figure out what it was... only takes once to learn that lesson though, lol.

Oh and can't forget the first time opening a sealed keg...
Oh look at that mist cool... *puts face up to hole*, *blows into keg*... yeah.

Actually I inhaled through my mouth and my throat was raw for almost an hour.

Tom thanks for the heads up on the kegs. I have a new 3 keg set up at home I'm about to put into use.