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as far as the carboy right now.. it is in a tupperwear of water and there is a towel under that too. Yeah.. I read a while back about the idea of cutting that plastic piece off the bottom of the airlock stem. That didnt seem to do much in this case..

will the foil keep the krausen in?

so what do you think about just putting the stopper and airlock back on for a few hours until I get home? Im thinking it will probably blow off again but I really cant ask the wife to do anything else right now.

So Im fermenting a Hefeweisen for the first time in a glass carboy. It was pretty full so I was a little worried about having enough head room in there. So it appears to be fermenting pretty vigorously because the airlock blew off. So my wife calls me while Im at work just now and says the...

hmm.. makes sense. Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I will try a starter next time. My brother (who is way more experienced than I) bought an extra yeast and some extra hops last time we went to the store, and he threw them in the freezer. I guess I just assumed that was no problem.

One other variable to throw in there that I thought of last night. I had that yeast in the freezer for about 2 weeks and then took it out on brew day. I took it out around 10am and pitched it that evening around 8pm. Funny thing though.. so I took a sample last night. Today, I go into the...

forgot.. California Ale liquid yeast

So I did my first all grain by myself. I hit all the expected numbers and volume, but I have had the beer in the fermentor about a week and it has only gone from 1060 to 1050. The only thing I can suspect is that I pitched the yeast into wort that was too hot (about 90 degrees). It was taking...