Recent content by beachbrew1

Hey

Gotcha, thanks for the visual aid! Very helpful.

Checked the tubing supplied with kit and it will not go over the output on the airlock. Making an IPA and the hop smell coming out of that airlock is making me drool. I might just put the auto siphon in the bucket and put the bottle filler in my mouth.

Using a Brewers Best kit. If the supplied tubing fits over the tube in the air lock, I can run that into... say my carboy, which is filled with sanitizing agent. If everything is sanitized it shouldn't be a problem right? Are there contamination concerns if I pull the entire airlock just to...

Thanks for replying but I really am really new at this. How do I make or buy a blow off tube? I will research it, but is this going to ruin my first batch? Any quick fixes?

Help! Just brewed my first batch last night with a specialty shop owner. Fermenting in a 5 gallon bucket. Checked the air lock earlier today and was bubbling fine. Just came down into basement where bucket was out of sunlight and there is wort bubbling out of the airlock onto the bucket...