4.5 Gallon batch in a 5 gallon bucket?

[gatorforty]

So...uh...

Last night I brewed batch #13.

Two new pieces of equipment caused me to miss my final volume by + 1/2 gallon. My fermenter is a 5 gallon bucket, and I was targeting a 4G batch.

In hindsight I should have held back on putting some of the wort into the fermenter, but I didn't. By the time I pitched the 1L yeast starter, there was only about 1.5 inches of headroom in the bucket.

Is this going to create the mess I think it will? I have been getting very active fermentation with tons of krausen since I started using starters. Nothing much so far this AM...should I try to re rack to a bigger fermenter? Dump some of the wort? Pray?

Thanks guys.

 

[JuiceyJay]

Use a big blow off and tape the hell out of the lid and hope it doesn't blow up

 

[Gixxer]

Blow off tube is one option...

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Keep it at the low end of the yeast temperature range as you can. Good luck.