MountainManAAA
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Hey everyone,
I finally cracked open my first bottles of my first batch and tested them out. making the first batch was kind of a disaster, first i burnt the malt extract and then i forgot to take the gravity along with some other problems but other than tasting very burnt my american ipa turned out all right.
Eager to make a better tasting beer i am now on my third and fourth batches with one that i just finished bottling one in my fermenting bucket and one in a glass carboy that my buddies dad gave me.
Unfortunately, i did not realize till i had begun brewing that the carboy was only a 5 gallon carboy (i believe) so upon adding my wort, then topping off with water, it was pretty freaking full. after a day or two of fermentation, it blew the makeshift blow off tube that i made right off and sprayed junk all over the ceiling. im hoping that i did not infect the batch when i put a towel over the opening to keep the foam from spraying everywhere while i dunked the stopper in sanitizer shoved it back in the hole and duct taped the crap out of it.
long story short, do i need to worry about anything other than the stopper flying off and wild yeast that i may have introduced? the blow off tube has been getting clogged here and there but eventually the pressure builds up enough and blows everything out. its pretty exciting stuff.
also side questions this recipe calls for adding ingredients into a secondary fermenter which i do not have, is it okay to add them to primary fermentation? if so when would i add them?
I finally cracked open my first bottles of my first batch and tested them out. making the first batch was kind of a disaster, first i burnt the malt extract and then i forgot to take the gravity along with some other problems but other than tasting very burnt my american ipa turned out all right.
Eager to make a better tasting beer i am now on my third and fourth batches with one that i just finished bottling one in my fermenting bucket and one in a glass carboy that my buddies dad gave me.
Unfortunately, i did not realize till i had begun brewing that the carboy was only a 5 gallon carboy (i believe) so upon adding my wort, then topping off with water, it was pretty freaking full. after a day or two of fermentation, it blew the makeshift blow off tube that i made right off and sprayed junk all over the ceiling. im hoping that i did not infect the batch when i put a towel over the opening to keep the foam from spraying everywhere while i dunked the stopper in sanitizer shoved it back in the hole and duct taped the crap out of it.
long story short, do i need to worry about anything other than the stopper flying off and wild yeast that i may have introduced? the blow off tube has been getting clogged here and there but eventually the pressure builds up enough and blows everything out. its pretty exciting stuff.
also side questions this recipe calls for adding ingredients into a secondary fermenter which i do not have, is it okay to add them to primary fermentation? if so when would i add them?
The only overflow issues I've ever had have been with wlp530 and that blew the lid off ... repeatedly. Fact is if I were going to ferment more Belgian style beers I'd probably step up to the 7.9 gal wine fermenters to get rid of the problem. 
