blew my air stopers blew off

[Grod1]

feck, went to check my carboys this morning after adding a weisse blend last night.
they blew off their tops, krassuen in puddles around the base of the carboy. They have been exposed to oxygen for an unknown amount of hours now.

i now have them running into a a bottle of water with a run off tube.
it smell like a sourdough bread factory up in there

feck.
any chance the beer is okay?

 

[poptarts]

almost 100% its fine

 

[ArthurDigbySellers]

Since you are obviously in the active fermentation phase (very active since you blew your airlocks off!), you are probably ok. The co2 produced by fermentation is what blew the airlocks off and that co2 should have also blocked any oxygen from getting in while the airlocks were off. You've fixed the situation by going to blow-off tubes so not much else you can do but wait and see. I'm betting your beer is fine.

 

[lolcats]

Agreed - No oxygen has approached your beer, perfectly fine. Set up a blow off next time from the start.

It's just a pain to clean up

 

[Grod1]

thanks guys for putting my mind at ease. Luckily i had the carboys in a plastic tote. so the mess is a minimal.
Im just keeping my fingers crossed that no flies found there way in there.I have seen those dam things crawl threw the tiny lil airlock holes.

 

[FloppyKnockers]

You're screwed! Now you're going to have to get your wife to clean up that mess.

 

[Grod1]

shhhh. don't tell her anything happened

 

[m00ps]

did the very top part of the airlock blow off? or did the entire assembly come out? If only the top piece or just the airlock came out, I dont see any reason to worry at all. Ive found the airlock and stopper on the floor next to the carboy before and havent run into issues.

 

[poptarts]

I had fermentation so crazy one night it blew off the lid so hard it opened the ferm chamber door. My ferm chamber was in the garage and at the time it was about 20F in the garage so the temp crashed overnight. Beer scored a 44 in a comp and was crazy delicious.

 

[Grod1]

wow thats one crazy story. I'm glad to here the outcome was fine/ is fine in most cases.
Just the airlock lid and the tube cover came off. The actual airlock and stopper where still in there. Thank you all for the feedback.