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I realize I messed up the starter gravity. I must have put something in wrong on the calculator. I did miss my OG by .01, so maybe my starter will add a little to my batch. Temp difference was about 10°F. With the starter being around 67 and wort being at 78

Did this and it's working great! Saved me a trip to the store. I did lose a lot of trub that was coming up with the krausen inbetween all the overflows/air lock cleanings/rigging of the blowoff tube. Hoping it won't effect the beer in any way. Hopefully it's smooth sailin from here :mug:

Whats worse case if I don't blow up my carboy? I just make a bit of a mess and lose a little foam? Or are there key ingredients in the foam that return back in to the beer?

perfect! thanks for the fast reply! I took the airlock off and cleaned it, and literally within 10 seconds it was filled up again. I'll look in to getting a blow off tube first thing in the morning. If i can't rig one up i'll drive down the the LHBS. At least I guess I don't need to worry about...

Holy Moses!!! This thing TOOK OFF while I was at work. To the point there's so much foam on top now it went through the air lock! This is the first time this has happened. I don't have a blow off tube. What should I do??

Was able to track down the yeast I used. It was West coast 004. And I did invest in a SS airstone and HEPA inline filters. Been using the O2 tank from our welder. Thanks everyone for the replies. Working late, so it'll be a couple hours until I can check it out and see the progression it made...

Thanks for the info! I thought it seemed like a lot too. I used the brewers friend yeast calculator and that's the number it told me. I must have punched in some wrong numbers or made an error.

:mug: Cheers to you!

Do you suggest I pitch another pack? I learned something new here. I thought as long as I made a starter that it didn't matter the age of the yeast (relatively)

UPDATE: I'm an impatient homebrewer. Just went and looked again and saw my first bubble in the airlock, and could finally start seeing the first signs of churning. Fingers crossed this turns into an awesome brew!

Is there any harm in adding more yeast? If not, I'll probably do that. Should I go with 2 packs? Possibility?? : I kind of rushed the whirlpool at the end and didn't give everything a ton of time to settle, so I got quite a bit of trub in my fermenter, and also didn't wait for that to settle...

Hmm.., that's kind of what I thought. The batch was a 5g, and for the starter I used 2L w/ 450g DME on a stir plate for 48hrs. The yeast was supposed to be 1056, but the guy at the HBS gave me something "similiar" because they were out of the 1056, and I'm rushing to find the receipt so I can...

Thanks for the fast reply. You gave me a little hope that I may not have ruined it. my HBS is about 30 min away, should I go grab another pack this morning and pitch it? Or wait it out another day? It's been 18 hours since pitching.

So I made a Pliny yesterday, 6th all-grain. Made a yeast starter a few days before, with good foaming/bubbles, but pitched the yeast yesterday around 2pm. Its now the next morning, and there's NO action what so ever. no bubbles, no foam, no nothing. First time it's taking this long...

Anyone else ever feel like the smell of the hops/mash/boil gets absorbed into your nose and all day long you taste/smell it? Haha, I think this is my 6th all-grain, and I feel like every brewday, I end up smelling that boil all day long. It seems to linger on me I suppose. By no means am I...