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Genius! I'll be brewing a Left Behind Belgian myself.

It wasn't obvious to me when I did the exact same thing the first time I used mine. Now I always make sure I've got a screwdriver handy when I brew, just in case. :D

Haha, after the initial moment of panic the first thing I did was take a picture. After it popped the airlock again I setup a blowoff tube and it made the night just fine, so I'll use one of these for primary from now on, at least until the yeasties settle down a bit. Lesson learned!

So I got home from work today and excitedly opened my closet to see if the Hef I brewed yesterday had started fermenting yet and saw this: Now, once or twice I've noticed that some foam came up through the air lock, but this time the air lock was blown completely off! Now, I've already got...

Ok, thanks for the advice everybody. This gives me an excuse to brew again this weekend. :)

I knew I was leaving out some details, I've been doing partial mash so far and I'm taking the sample from the fermenter but I've been doing a full boil so I haven't needed any top off water. Another thing I thought of this morning, is that I'm not losing too much water during the boil. I...

Today I brewed my 7th batch, one of the Austin Homebrew Anniversary kits, but I've been starting to notice a trend of having lower than expected OGs. The first 3 were pretty close, only about .005 or less off, but the last few have been about twice that. With higher estimated OGs I seem to...