adamjackson
Well-Known Member
Brewed an American Pale Ale / IPA (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/what-beer-style-did-i-just-make-extract-brew-339806/) on Thursday.
We're at hour 48 and the blow off tube is always my default at least for the first 4 days then I switch to an airlock as I use 5 gallon carboys.
So, I get home today and the Bucket full of StarSan and Water was about 2 litres fuller than when I left this morning and was totally brown water. Usually, it's just brown but no raised levels. I uncovered the carboy and there is an entire ring gone.
What I mean is, I filled the wort to the top ring of the carboy (before the neck tapers toward the spout) and now it's a full ring lower (about 1-2 litres of loss of liquid). This is my 6th batch and I've had serious insane krausen with blow off but never have I LOST beer to the blow off bucket totally about 10 glasses of loss.
It's depressing and I'm wondering how I could avoid this and is this normal? I didn't fill the carboy higher than before yet I loss a significant amount of wort and now must drain some of the blow off bucket or it's going to overflow.
We're at hour 48 and the blow off tube is always my default at least for the first 4 days then I switch to an airlock as I use 5 gallon carboys.
So, I get home today and the Bucket full of StarSan and Water was about 2 litres fuller than when I left this morning and was totally brown water. Usually, it's just brown but no raised levels. I uncovered the carboy and there is an entire ring gone.
What I mean is, I filled the wort to the top ring of the carboy (before the neck tapers toward the spout) and now it's a full ring lower (about 1-2 litres of loss of liquid). This is my 6th batch and I've had serious insane krausen with blow off but never have I LOST beer to the blow off bucket totally about 10 glasses of loss.
It's depressing and I'm wondering how I could avoid this and is this normal? I didn't fill the carboy higher than before yet I loss a significant amount of wort and now must drain some of the blow off bucket or it's going to overflow.