5 gal batch, 6.5 gal carboy, no need for a blow off tube, right?

[dunnright00]

Not with WLP007 apparently...

Pitched a nice healthy yeast starter into my Imperial Stout yesterday about 1pm. Kept checking throughout the evening and no real signs of fermentation starting, but I knew it was cool.

Woke up this morning and saw two small puddles of dark brown liquid gold. Opened to find the previous picture and also this

Bummer. So I had to quickly devise some kind of blow off tube, as I haven't used on for a long time.

I'll have some cleaning up to do when I get home tonight...

 

[douglasbarbin]

Fermcap-S probably could have prevented that...

 

[sablesurfer]

If you have a fridge of Ballast Point, I could probably come help clean the fridge.

I have put my 3gal beers in 6gal carboys and had some hit the airlock.

 

[dunnright00]

Fermcap-S probably could have prevented that...

Yeah, I should probably get some of that. Never really had a problem with this before. I only used blow-off tubes if it was in a 5gal carboy.

If you have a fridge of Ballast Point, I could probably come help clean the fridge.

Heh, well it was full of Ballast point at one time, but now it's full (mostly) of a previous batch of homebrew...
You can still come help clean up though!

 

[sablesurfer]

Just came home to this, 3.5gal in a 6 gal carboy...check that krausen!

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[dunnright00]

Yowza!

What yeast..?

 

[sablesurfer]

Barleywine (est 10.5%) with three packets of Nottingham. Sitting at 65F.