Beer in Airlock

[jmarx13]

Has any had or heard of a situation where beer came up through the airlock during fermenting?
I assumed that it was because it was a hard fermenting and came through the only hole available.

 

[castillo556]

careful your lid doesn't blow off!

 

[brewbama]

Yes. It's blowoff. Keep the airlock clean or you'll mop the ceiling. LOL. An alternative would be to use a blow off tube.


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[johnway]

All of the water was gone and beer had pushed out through the top of airlock. This was within 12 hours of my pitching yeast into an IPA.

I used sanitizer to clean up the bucket and around the airlock hole. I also cleaned out the airlock with sanitizer and then quickly put it back in place. Fermentation seems to have calmed down.

Is there a substantial risk of bacterial infection? Anything else I should do? This is my first IPA and it take 8 weeks to complete, so I would hate to lose this batch.

 

[Orthobrewsky]

Basically, stuff was coming out, not going in, so there should be no extra risk from this.

 

[Atticus1019]

You're good man. In the future get some 5/16" tubing and shove it in the hole you put your airlock in and run it into a bucket of sanitizer solution. You basically just make a much bigger airlock that won't explode all over the place if your fermentation goes a little nuts.

Keep an eye on it, but if you're a few days in now you shouldn't have to worry about it happening again.

 

[johnway]

Thanks. The fermentation activity has slowed quite a bit since the initial blowoff. Still bubbling about once every 20-30 seconds.