3 days ago I brewed my first large batch (11 gal, into two 6.5 gal carboys) all-grain 1.069 OG IPA 92% 2-row pale, 8% crystal 20l, mashed at 149.
At 10pm I pitched hydrated S-04 into one carboy, and 1.8L chilled & decanted WLP570 starter into the 78°F wort. Shake the each carboy for 5 minutes to aerate. Put blowoff tubes on each using the 3 pc airlock, moved to my 60°F basement and went to bed. 12 hours later this is what I find! (See attached)
In the pictures I've already placed the airlock back in the carboy. The airlock fired out of the carboy due to the amount of krausen blockage in the tube and struck the florescent bulb above it breaking it. This left a shattered glass & sticky! krausen mixture over my entire workbench, tools, and basement floor. About 2.5 qts are missing. I'm extremely lucky this was not upstairs. My wife would've killed me!
Anybody else experience this before!? It look a lot of pressure to do this. Very impressed by this yeasts ability to start quick. 6" krausen and a clogged blowoff 12 hours post-pitch - wow. Compare it to the S-04 it's only just starting.
The ambient temp in the basement is ~62 now. I'm going to leave the batch with S-04 at this temp but raise the WLP570 batch via water bath to mid 70's slowly over the next 7 days. It's at about 65 beer temp at the moment ~55 hours post pitch. Does this sound like a good plan for my Belgian-IPA? Necessary...? or leave it at 60-62°?
Thanks for reading
At 10pm I pitched hydrated S-04 into one carboy, and 1.8L chilled & decanted WLP570 starter into the 78°F wort. Shake the each carboy for 5 minutes to aerate. Put blowoff tubes on each using the 3 pc airlock, moved to my 60°F basement and went to bed. 12 hours later this is what I find! (See attached)
In the pictures I've already placed the airlock back in the carboy. The airlock fired out of the carboy due to the amount of krausen blockage in the tube and struck the florescent bulb above it breaking it. This left a shattered glass & sticky! krausen mixture over my entire workbench, tools, and basement floor. About 2.5 qts are missing. I'm extremely lucky this was not upstairs. My wife would've killed me!
Anybody else experience this before!? It look a lot of pressure to do this. Very impressed by this yeasts ability to start quick. 6" krausen and a clogged blowoff 12 hours post-pitch - wow. Compare it to the S-04 it's only just starting.
The ambient temp in the basement is ~62 now. I'm going to leave the batch with S-04 at this temp but raise the WLP570 batch via water bath to mid 70's slowly over the next 7 days. It's at about 65 beer temp at the moment ~55 hours post pitch. Does this sound like a good plan for my Belgian-IPA? Necessary...? or leave it at 60-62°?
Thanks for reading