Ok I have a noob question and I have brewed for some time now and I just have never had to do this before. some background first :
- I brewed denny conns bourbon vanilla porter on Sunday and everything went great.
- 24 hours later it was like a volcano going off in the carboy so very quickly I rigged a impromtu blow off to save my floor / walls / ceiling
- a good point to note is that the temp was also really close to the high end of the range so i dropped it into a swamp cooler to bring it down
- after 24 hours more the blow off subsided so I pulled the tube and replaced it with a new air lock.
- I noticed the temp was now a few degrees lower thatn optimal so out o the swamp cooler and on went the brew belt. THIS WAS MY MISTAKE.
so I go to bed but I think to myself.... I wonder if it stopped blowing off cause the temp dropped below the yeast range and I wonder if the brew beltt is going to kick it back up... "oh well I'll se what happens in the morning. Guess what!!!! bastard started up again and the air lock was filled with krausen not a drop of water to be seen. Yes I am worried about infection ( I can hear Revvy now !!!! ) though not overly worried Revvy beat me out of that along time ago as well as expierence. So on to the noob question .... I don;t like the idea of pulling airlocks on and off I've done it 3 times now can I just leave this blow off on until I go into to secondary to infuse the vanilla beans ? I rarely have used a blow off but I will now regarlessly though I have limited expierence at this point and would appreciate any input if it's is ok to leave a blow off on for appx 3 weeks without issue.
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- I brewed denny conns bourbon vanilla porter on Sunday and everything went great.
- 24 hours later it was like a volcano going off in the carboy so very quickly I rigged a impromtu blow off to save my floor / walls / ceiling
- a good point to note is that the temp was also really close to the high end of the range so i dropped it into a swamp cooler to bring it down
- after 24 hours more the blow off subsided so I pulled the tube and replaced it with a new air lock.
- I noticed the temp was now a few degrees lower thatn optimal so out o the swamp cooler and on went the brew belt. THIS WAS MY MISTAKE.
so I go to bed but I think to myself.... I wonder if it stopped blowing off cause the temp dropped below the yeast range and I wonder if the brew beltt is going to kick it back up... "oh well I'll se what happens in the morning. Guess what!!!! bastard started up again and the air lock was filled with krausen not a drop of water to be seen. Yes I am worried about infection ( I can hear Revvy now !!!! ) though not overly worried Revvy beat me out of that along time ago as well as expierence. So on to the noob question .... I don;t like the idea of pulling airlocks on and off I've done it 3 times now can I just leave this blow off on until I go into to secondary to infuse the vanilla beans ? I rarely have used a blow off but I will now regarlessly though I have limited expierence at this point and would appreciate any input if it's is ok to leave a blow off on for appx 3 weeks without issue.
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