Blow off tube on a bucket

[SoonerDoc]

I've seen lots of blow off tubes, all on carboys.
If you ferment in a bucket, how would you attach a blow-off tube? (I'm making a hefe next, apparently they can be a little vigorous.) It's a 3/8" hole, right? Stick a 3/8" tube directly in the hole in the lid or (as someone else here stated) use the "base" part of a 3-piece airlock and attach the hose to that? Is that the same size? Any benefit either way?

 

[tamoore]

I've seen lots of blow off tubes, all on carboys.
If you ferment in a bucket, how would you attach a blow-off tube? (I'm making a hefe next, apparently they can be a little vigorous.) It's a 3/8" hole, right? Stick a 3/8" tube directly in the hole in the lid or (as someone else here stated) use the "base" part of a 3-piece airlock and attach the hose to that? Is that the same size? Any benefit either way?

I had a 3/8" piece of tube crammed into the grommet on my bucket, and the beer stuffs was spewing out all around it; It was too loose.

I got a airlock, and pushed a 1/2" ID tube over it, and worked great.

 

[pr0cess]

I'm far from an expert but in thinking about it, the main concern is airtightness. If you have a hole with the rubber grommet in it like came with my kit, that could be tight enough. But I think if you use the airlock piece as the male connector you will be able to get a tighter fit which seems to be desired.

-dylan

 

[Revvy]

That was originally my bottling hose. I put a slit in it, heated it in boiling water and slipped it on.

One thing that I do to all my airlocks is saw or break off the little criss/cross of plastic on the bottom of them.

 

[lyacovett]

I use either a 3/8 in hose through the grommet in the lid, or just a 1/2 in hose right in to the lid. The 1/2 in gets clogged much less. I just did a triple with the 3/8 and had to clean out the blowoff every hour or so for the first 2 days.

 

[SoonerDoc]

Great! Thanks!

 

[Reno_eNVy]

My buckets don't have grommets, just holes. So I usually use an airlock in a stopper and that works fantastic. But with my recent tripel I knew I'd need a blow off so I just jammed a 3/8" tube into the same stopper and it worked like a champ even with a violent fermentation and a huge krausen. The effer is still bubbling away after 6 days but I think it's safe to replace it with an airlock

 

[ctufano]

I brewed my first batch today and used a 3 piece airlock to 3/8" x 1/2" thickness hose to a gallon carboy w/ solution. waitin for it to get goin with fermentation to see if itll work

oh, and this is into the lid of my true brew bucket