Gee fellas, I wasn't going to bother with this stupidity again, despite being called everything from a liar to a serial killer, but I'm just going to point one thing out to you and then go back to doing what matters, and helping folks on here.
It's not TOO much of an
EXAGGERATION to say that on a typical week, especially one where I'm off work like I will be next week, that my fermentation closet looks something like this, plus my three buckets full of beer, wines, ciders a meads. All different volumes and sizes of fermenters, different types of airlock, or blow off tubes or whatever.
In fact THIS was the output of the brew day in my sigline..ONE BREW DAY...
That's what, 7 different fermenters all pitched on the same day???? 5 meads, a barelyine and a partigyle from there.....
I would be
LYING if I didn't say that there aren't many a day where I can have 2, 2.5 gallon fermenters of the same 5 gallon splt batch going, or 5 and 2, 2.5 gallons brewed in the same weekend, or a 5 gallon batch split into 5 1 gallon batches....all in one place
where it's easy to see whether an airlock is going or not......
And that could be what my closet looks like, 1 or 2 weekends a month for the last several years.
Someone would have to be both blind AND deaf not to be able to note whether airlocks are bubbling or not.
You don't think that because I write about this so much, that I wouldn't check just about EVERYTIME I have brews going on in there whether or not there's airlock bubbling or not, so I can KEEP saying that 50% I don't have airlock activity?????
Gee if 2 fermenters are sitting next to each other where I pitched yeast in both of them 24 hours before, or 72 hours for that matter,
you don't think I could tell that 1 is bubbling and they other isn't......and that, last I checked is 50% isn't it....
You think I need to lie or exagerate to prove that airlocks don't matter,
especially when I have probably 10,000 posts of folks like the OP whose airlocks didn't bubble and their beers turned out fine???? I really need to lie or stretch the truth about my own, when I cited 2 folks posts from last week,
and at least 2 other brewers jumped in here and said that sometimes their airlock don't blip either?
All I need to do is an advance post search to find response from folks who went and took an hydro reading when their airlock wasn't bubbling. I have more than enough of those to back my argument up without need to lie or even exaggarate......
If I'm going to waste my time making **** up, it's gonna be about my penis size to some super model, not how many of my fermentations bubble or not.
Like I said, I'm going back to answer more questions....I'm not going to waste my time with this any more......