A Great Reason to Use A Blow Off Tube

[amrmedic]

I brewed my stout yesterday and put it in the fridge for fermentation yesterday and came home today from work to find this. It actually bowed up the lid of the fermenter. I am crying about the gallon or so of lost beer. That bottom drawer is half full or wort. You cant see the ceiling, but the ceiling and sides are plastered in beer.

 

[Kokopuff829]

Ouch

 

[amrmedic]

yes from my CSI work, it must have built up so much CO2 the airlock could not let it escape fast enough until it shot out the airlock like a cannon

 

[Kokopuff829]

Yep tht seems like the cause makes me think about my future stout.

 

[jerryalan]

Don't just use a blow-off tube...make sure the container it's sitting in is large enough to catch all krausen. I have 5.5 gallons of a robust coffee porter in my seven-gallon carboy in a fermentation chamber with a blow-off tube into a half-gallon jar with some star-san solution. I still have a huge mess to clean up. Next project: A 6" diameter by 24" long PVC tube with an end cap to use as a krausen catcher!

 

[topend]

Sorry to see that..my setup looks like yours and I've never seen anything like that. I may need to make a blowoff before it's too late...

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