Hi all,
I'm using a couple glass carboys as my primary fermenter, and plan on leaving the wort in the fermenter for a couple weeks or until it's ready to bottle, and not use a secondary fermenter at all.
My one and only plastic bucket currently is busy with a batch of Festa West Coast IPA, all I had left to use were the glass carboys.
Since this is my 1st time using the glass carboy as a primary as opposed to the usual plastic bucket what I'm concerned about is the amount of krausen that may form in the glass carboy, and what to do about it if it's to much.
I had a batch of Pale Ale go crazy with a really violent fermentation recently in the plastic bucket, so now I'm wondering if the glass carboys even have enough room.
I've seen some people use glass carboys as primary fermenter and they use a drainage hose type thing, which is a hose in the bung instead of the airlock, which goes to a large jar of water next to the carboy, so it still bubbles up under water to maintain an airlock, but the krausen has somewhere to go if it gets too much.
Should I use this kind of setup?
Right now, there is just the usual airlock in the carboys, and I just pitched the yeast a few hours ago, so there's still time to unplug the airlock and replace with a tube if you think it will get messy!
I just started a batch of Brew House Oktoberfest, and a batch of Brew House Winterfest Ale at the same time, maybe the hoses could both go into the same jar of water, or would that be a bad cross contamination thing?
Thanks!!
Chris
I'm using a couple glass carboys as my primary fermenter, and plan on leaving the wort in the fermenter for a couple weeks or until it's ready to bottle, and not use a secondary fermenter at all.
My one and only plastic bucket currently is busy with a batch of Festa West Coast IPA, all I had left to use were the glass carboys.
Since this is my 1st time using the glass carboy as a primary as opposed to the usual plastic bucket what I'm concerned about is the amount of krausen that may form in the glass carboy, and what to do about it if it's to much.
I had a batch of Pale Ale go crazy with a really violent fermentation recently in the plastic bucket, so now I'm wondering if the glass carboys even have enough room.
I've seen some people use glass carboys as primary fermenter and they use a drainage hose type thing, which is a hose in the bung instead of the airlock, which goes to a large jar of water next to the carboy, so it still bubbles up under water to maintain an airlock, but the krausen has somewhere to go if it gets too much.
Should I use this kind of setup?
Right now, there is just the usual airlock in the carboys, and I just pitched the yeast a few hours ago, so there's still time to unplug the airlock and replace with a tube if you think it will get messy!
I just started a batch of Brew House Oktoberfest, and a batch of Brew House Winterfest Ale at the same time, maybe the hoses could both go into the same jar of water, or would that be a bad cross contamination thing?
Thanks!!
Chris