sappnasty
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Fellas,
So I finally started my Schofferhofer Clone brew. Because the recipe called for only a 2.5 gallon batch of hefeweizen, I inquired about the tube of Whitelabs WLP-300 hefeweizen from the brew shop owner who was nice enough to give me the recipe. According to him, I was supposed to pitch the entire tube with no starter, so I did what he said.
I pitched the yeast at about 8:00pm and set the carboy in the dark closet. Because my last batch was a little slower to start, I decided to start with a 3 piece airlock and when I started seeing a decent amount of activity, I would switch over to the blow off valve. Bad idea. When I got up in the morning, the airlock was bubbling about every 10-20 seconds and the water was still very clear. So I figured I would check the next day and then change it over before I had a mess on my hands.
Well long story short, my brewing closet is conveniently located in my manroom where I keep all of my firearms and reloading gear...I was working on a rifle and I heard a strange sound from the closed closet...open the door and what do I find? That within 6 hours of last checking it, the yeast became supe active and caused the krausen to rise out of the carboy and into the airlock. It even spilled over onto the carboy and down onto the floor. I immediately changed to a blow off hose and 86'd the airlock. But once I placed the tube in the bucket, I could not freakin believe how much activity there was. It was constantly bubbling and even seem to have an overload of bubbles for a few seconds at a time...kind of like blowing bubbles in your milk when we were kids.
At the time the water was nice and clean, but as or this morning it was nasty colored and foaming. How often should I change the water and should I attempt to clean out the tube? Or should I wait until it calms down and then maintain it? I know some yeast strains are different, but is it so active because of the 2.5 gallon batch and the fact that I pitched the entire tube? Crazy, but a learning lesson non the less! Keep chacking my clone thread as I will update as I go.
-Sapp
So I finally started my Schofferhofer Clone brew. Because the recipe called for only a 2.5 gallon batch of hefeweizen, I inquired about the tube of Whitelabs WLP-300 hefeweizen from the brew shop owner who was nice enough to give me the recipe. According to him, I was supposed to pitch the entire tube with no starter, so I did what he said.
I pitched the yeast at about 8:00pm and set the carboy in the dark closet. Because my last batch was a little slower to start, I decided to start with a 3 piece airlock and when I started seeing a decent amount of activity, I would switch over to the blow off valve. Bad idea. When I got up in the morning, the airlock was bubbling about every 10-20 seconds and the water was still very clear. So I figured I would check the next day and then change it over before I had a mess on my hands.
Well long story short, my brewing closet is conveniently located in my manroom where I keep all of my firearms and reloading gear...I was working on a rifle and I heard a strange sound from the closed closet...open the door and what do I find? That within 6 hours of last checking it, the yeast became supe active and caused the krausen to rise out of the carboy and into the airlock. It even spilled over onto the carboy and down onto the floor. I immediately changed to a blow off hose and 86'd the airlock. But once I placed the tube in the bucket, I could not freakin believe how much activity there was. It was constantly bubbling and even seem to have an overload of bubbles for a few seconds at a time...kind of like blowing bubbles in your milk when we were kids.
At the time the water was nice and clean, but as or this morning it was nasty colored and foaming. How often should I change the water and should I attempt to clean out the tube? Or should I wait until it calms down and then maintain it? I know some yeast strains are different, but is it so active because of the 2.5 gallon batch and the fact that I pitched the entire tube? Crazy, but a learning lesson non the less! Keep chacking my clone thread as I will update as I go.
-Sapp