So, I brewed my third batch with the help of a friend on Friday. I found a recipe and then tweaked it a ton to fit my ingredients. It is a stout containing:
-5/3 c roasted barley
-10 oz brown sugar
-1.5 oz Mt. Hood (bittering)
-1.25 oz Northern Brewer (flavor)
-.5 oz Mt. Hood (aroma)
-8 lbs of Dark DME
2 pkgs of Coopers Yeast (7g)
I put it in my 6.5 gallon fermenter, put the airlock in and put it in the closet for the night. Saturday morning I go to check on it before I leave for work... so glad I did. The airlock was filled and krausen was making it's way out the top, the sides of the fermenter were soaked, but fortunately the floor was still pretty safe. I pulled the fermenter out and worked desperately to get a blowoff hose in the airlock hole. So much krausen was coming out, I even have some marks on my ceiling I had to clean up it was so pressurized! Fortunately all is well and I got the hose in there. The fermentation has greatly subsided now but for a while there it was going to town.
I thought my 6.5 gallon fermenter could hold anything except a barley wine without a blowoff hose. Was it the fact that I had 14g of dry yeast in there, or was it the 8 lbs of DME that did me in?
(The OG on this beer is 1.080, my highest yet - the hydrometer tells me it corresponds to a possible alcohol of around 12%. I hope this turns out well!)
-5/3 c roasted barley
-10 oz brown sugar
-1.5 oz Mt. Hood (bittering)
-1.25 oz Northern Brewer (flavor)
-.5 oz Mt. Hood (aroma)
-8 lbs of Dark DME
2 pkgs of Coopers Yeast (7g)
I put it in my 6.5 gallon fermenter, put the airlock in and put it in the closet for the night. Saturday morning I go to check on it before I leave for work... so glad I did. The airlock was filled and krausen was making it's way out the top, the sides of the fermenter were soaked, but fortunately the floor was still pretty safe. I pulled the fermenter out and worked desperately to get a blowoff hose in the airlock hole. So much krausen was coming out, I even have some marks on my ceiling I had to clean up it was so pressurized! Fortunately all is well and I got the hose in there. The fermentation has greatly subsided now but for a while there it was going to town.
I thought my 6.5 gallon fermenter could hold anything except a barley wine without a blowoff hose. Was it the fact that I had 14g of dry yeast in there, or was it the 8 lbs of DME that did me in?
(The OG on this beer is 1.080, my highest yet - the hydrometer tells me it corresponds to a possible alcohol of around 12%. I hope this turns out well!)