Octang
Well-Known Member
Congrats AHS you will now be getting all my business. I am done trying to patronize my LHBS. Their prices are way too high, they aren't helpful enough and they give bad advice.
I've been having a few concerns with them but I kept giving them second chances. However my experience last week was their final chance.
I went to buy a blow off tube for my carboy and the guy who runs the LHBS recommended me a tube that only has a 1/4" inside diameter (maybe 3/8"). From reading these forums I understand most of you recommend something bigger. So I asked him if I needed to be concerned with that plugging up and he told me not to worry.
Well, what do you think happened the first time I used it?
I was lying in bed waiting for my alarm to go off a few minutes later and I hear a soft gun shot noise coming from my closet and some bottles rattle. So I got up to check and saw the rubber stopper and blow off tube shot off my carboy (made a good mess of beer on the ceiling). And this was 30 minutes before I was leaving town for a week, so I couldn't babysit my beer.
I let some krausen ooze out to alieviate some of the pressure before I recapped it and I had my sister stop by my apartment while I was gone to check on my beer to ensure the blow off was still attatched and I didn't ruin my cherry stout. Luckily it seems everything came out fine.
However I am frustrated with my LHBS because that is a headache I didn't need to have if he would have just sold me what I wanted... a bigger tube. If that blow off tube would have shot off only 30 minutes later I would have been gone for the week already and ruined my most expensive batch of beer to date.
Grrr
So, how to I attach a larger blow off tube to a carboy? My tiny tube just inserts in the rubber stopper that comes with my starter kit, but a bigger tube won't fit in that tiny hole obviously.
I've been having a few concerns with them but I kept giving them second chances. However my experience last week was their final chance.
I went to buy a blow off tube for my carboy and the guy who runs the LHBS recommended me a tube that only has a 1/4" inside diameter (maybe 3/8"). From reading these forums I understand most of you recommend something bigger. So I asked him if I needed to be concerned with that plugging up and he told me not to worry.
Well, what do you think happened the first time I used it?
I was lying in bed waiting for my alarm to go off a few minutes later and I hear a soft gun shot noise coming from my closet and some bottles rattle. So I got up to check and saw the rubber stopper and blow off tube shot off my carboy (made a good mess of beer on the ceiling). And this was 30 minutes before I was leaving town for a week, so I couldn't babysit my beer.
I let some krausen ooze out to alieviate some of the pressure before I recapped it and I had my sister stop by my apartment while I was gone to check on my beer to ensure the blow off was still attatched and I didn't ruin my cherry stout. Luckily it seems everything came out fine.
However I am frustrated with my LHBS because that is a headache I didn't need to have if he would have just sold me what I wanted... a bigger tube. If that blow off tube would have shot off only 30 minutes later I would have been gone for the week already and ruined my most expensive batch of beer to date.
Grrr
So, how to I attach a larger blow off tube to a carboy? My tiny tube just inserts in the rubber stopper that comes with my starter kit, but a bigger tube won't fit in that tiny hole obviously.