Brand New to Brewing: Fermentation Questions

[nemlich22]

Hello everyone. Today I treated myself to an early Christmas gift and bought a brewing starter kit and an extract ingredient kit to use as my first brew. I now have my first batch fermenting in a 5 gallon carboy. The fermenting seems to going nuts and bubbles are coming up and out of my air lock at a pretty good rate. Is this a normal occurance or have I done something wrong?

 

[sh00t]

Nope, its a good thing... perfect even. Now comes the suck part i.e. waiting

 

[Brasco20]

If the airlock slows after a few days dont worry, everything is fine. Welcome to the madness! Check out the stickies.

 

[nemlich22]

Ok thanks guys. Do you normally keep your fermentation carboy in another bucket then to handle the overflowing bubbles?

 

[WillPall]

Don't listen to the posters above. You definitely have a problem. Sounds like you have a yeast infection.

Seriously, everything is fine. Check out some threads in the beginner's forum and give this beer a few weeks to do its thing. I'd recommend at least 3 weeks of fermentation in primary, but there are others here who disagree. Welcome to home brewing!

 

[veritas524]

If krausen is overflowing out of your airlock, you might want to install a blow off tube. Take some vinyl tubing, plug it in where your airlock would normally go and run it into a large container filled with sanitizer/water.

 

[snowman]

yes, if you put a whole 5 gal in a 5 gal carboy you'd need a blowoff tube instead of an airlock as there is too little room left for the krausen .... maybe spend another 15 bucks and get a pail and use the carboy as a secondary, it will free up your pail for another batch.

 

[nemlich22]

Don't listen to the posters above. You definitely have a problem. Sounds like you have a yeast infection.

Seriously, everything is fine. Check out some threads in the beginner's forum and give this beer a few weeks to do its thing. I'd recommend at least 3 weeks of fermentation in primary, but there are others here who disagree. Welcome to home brewing!

Ok perfect, thank you.