Learned my lesson the hard way over the weekend. Brewed a 5-gallon batch of Hefeweizen, and began fermentation Saturday night with a standard airlock on my carboy. Sunday morning, I woke up to chunks of wort protein and yeast all over the CEILING of my bathroom. The pressure became too intense for the airlock, and it shot it right out of the carboy, sending chunks of nastiness flying everywhere with it. From now on, my carboy fermentations will ALWAYS use blowoff tubes to start.
It's hard to see, but those little brown specks are the crap all over my bathroom ceiling.
Let this serve as a warning to the fellow newbies out there that think a 6-gallon carboy is plenty of room for a 5-gallon batch...
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It's hard to see, but those little brown specks are the crap all over my bathroom ceiling.
Let this serve as a warning to the fellow newbies out there that think a 6-gallon carboy is plenty of room for a 5-gallon batch...
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