Recent content by Illini17

That worked like a charm, thanks! A nice, hot halogen work lamp in the keezer for a little while got the temp up enough to stabilize at 50 for the time being. I'll have to monitor it for the fermentation time, but at least I have a way to warm it up if things get too cold around here...

Thanks much. It's Munich and look like I can go to 48. Argh! Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb!

So I'm a dummy. I brewed a lager to ferment in my relatively new keezer. No problem to set the temp controls to 50 and be good to go. However, it's only in the 30s in my garage where the keezer is. Chemistry 101 tells me the keezer can't warm to 50 until, at very least, it's that warm outside...

I'm not actually using an airlock, per se. A year ago, I DID have a blowoff (correct terminology...beer all over my ceiling, LOL!), so now I use a syphon hose that goes from the bucket down to a container of water. And as for taking gravity readings before posting...that's from reading...

Thanks all, sounds like I shouldn't be too worried. And yes, I understand blowoff...just using the wrong terminology as I didn't have any activity through the airlock. Like I said, have done a few beers and never seen this. I assumed at some level that co2 had to be released for alcohol to form...

PS, the lid was on tight...that was the first thing I checked (and the only explanation I've seen on the board thus far). Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

Sorry, tried to wade through the fermentation sticky but didn't have a ton of luck with this particular oddity for me. Started a beer in the primary six days ago with an OG of 1.050 and have had zero blowoff, to the point that the lid of the bucket doestn't bow up at all from pressure. I...