How much do you like washing down the walls and ceiling? With an airlock you might not need to but with a blowoff you nearly certainly will not. Unless you have a very large headspace, the blowoff is the safe choice.I’m brewing a black IPA tomorrow. My target OG is 1.067. Should I use a standard airlock or a blow off hose during fermentation?
5 gal in a 6 gal glass carboy. But based all the other comments I guess I will use one regardless.What's the batch size and how much headspace does your fermenter have?
Propagate Chico ale yeast 2 millionwhat yeast strain? some fart like a rhino, others meek along like field mice.
5 gal in a 6 gal glass carboy. But based all the other comments I guess I will use one regardless.
Yes, 6.5. It’s my first AG 5 gal batch, so thanks for the advice.Yeah, that's fairly tight (unless your 6 gallon carboy is really 6.5...most glass ones are). That, plus 1.067 gravity would be enough for me to use a blow off.
Not kinked, just bad photography. But you did make me go check it!^ Can't see the top bend in that hose, but is it kinked? You want it to be gently curved.
It’s a 1” hose. The sanitizer is about a third of the way up the 64 oz growler.Same comment on the kink.
I really don't think those small hoses really do the job, they too can become blocked. I use a 1.25 inch hose that fits in place of the bung.
Did you remove the X from the bottom of the airlock?
How much water (sanitizer) is in the jug? It only needs to be just above the hose. With cold temp swings, the beer can suck the fluid back into the fermenter.
I don't even bother anymore. I ferment with a spunding valve set very low. (2-3 psi)
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