So I took my homebrew kit to my mothers house to show her where all my money has been going lately. What do I do? I forget the fermenter lid. Luckily her neighbor used to home brew 20+ years ago and had a couple 5 gallon car boys previously used as Mountain Valley Springwater water jugs. After cleaning thoroughly and sanitizing properly I put my 5 gallon home brew batch into one of the aforementioned carboys.
Not even 24 hours had passed when I came home from work and found yeast and hops and beer sprayed all over my closet and had even been so forceful that it reached the ceiling. It had begun spilling frothiness/yeast sharts out of the opening on top. This is the picture of my airlock I found after 20 minutes of searching on the top shelf.
Here is my question: are there any instances where a certain carboy is not adequate for home brew or since it was a five gallon capacity carboy, was it just to small (and I should've used a blow-off tube)? I wasn't aware that the construction of 5 gallon glass jugs could very that much or even if they did at all.