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  1. C

    Had to transfer to new fermenter during high krausen, now no bubbles from airlock

    It was leaking from the gasket that goes around the spigot assembly so it would have required disassembly of the spigot to fix. Next time I might just leave it alone and clean up the leak mess daily rather than risk the contamination of re-racking it mid-madness.
  2. C

    Had to transfer to new fermenter during high krausen, now no bubbles from airlock

    I checked the gravity yesterday, day5 of fermentation, and it’s at 1.009 so I’d say it’s close to done.
  3. C

    Had to transfer to new fermenter during high krausen, now no bubbles from airlock

    We maybe could have left it -- the leak was an ounce or two a day -- but decided to transfer just in case the leak got worse or introduced a contamination vector. The fermenter is a 3-gallon "SS Brew Bucket Mini" so an ounce or two a day makes a mess we couldn't live with. I will follow your...
  4. C

    Had to transfer to new fermenter during high krausen, now no bubbles from airlock

    About a day and a half into fermentation we noticed that the fermenter was leaking from the spout. Thus we had no choice but to transfer the wort into a different fermenter since fixing the existing one would have required emptying the fermenter anyway. At the time of the transfer, the airlock...
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