Ruy Lopez
Well-Known Member
I brewed an all-grain barley wine this weekend. Big beer. 23 lbs for 5 gallons. Put it in a 6.5 gallon carboy with an airlock and stuck it in my closet. A smarter man would have put a blow-off tube on from the start, but I didn't. I usually don't mess with them, saving space for the multiple carboys I have in the closet at one time.
Big mistake. I woke up this morning to a slow fountain of kraeusen oozing from the airlock. I scrambled around half asleep to set up a blow-off tube.
Thinking of this all day today I began to wonder: Have any of you cultured yeast using a blow-off tube into a sterile bottle? (tube into bottle, with airlock to let off the pressure but keep it safe from nasty old bacteria.) Not a new idea I know, but I wonder about the practicality/sterility on the homebrew scale.
Big mistake. I woke up this morning to a slow fountain of kraeusen oozing from the airlock. I scrambled around half asleep to set up a blow-off tube.
Thinking of this all day today I began to wonder: Have any of you cultured yeast using a blow-off tube into a sterile bottle? (tube into bottle, with airlock to let off the pressure but keep it safe from nasty old bacteria.) Not a new idea I know, but I wonder about the practicality/sterility on the homebrew scale.