Ok, in typical fashion, my brew caused more than one headache.
I have a 6.5 gal carboy. Drew a line at the 5.5 gal mark and had my bucket of star san, equipment cleaned, and carboy full of star san. So let's brew.
Well first full boil with extract was fine. A lot of hop additions and such but everything at the right time.
So at flame out my dad starts the chiller and I go put the necessary items in the sanitizer .
As the wort got to proper temp we immediately transferred it to the carboy. It had some bubbles from the star san but I know that's fine. Well all those bubbles steadily formed a huge mass of bubbles and with some wort left I had green star san foam from all the hop particulate oozing out of the carboy. So we have to wait and pour a lil at a time. Finally get that in and realize with all the hop particulate and yeast from starter I ended up closer to six gals of wort. So now I know I need a blow off hose . The 1/2 id hose will not fit over the stem in the plastic airlock.
Now I'm panicked so I find my blow off cap that's plastic that has to antenna looking things. Dip in star san and put it on. Then I try to force on the hose to the larger part that's suppose to take a 1/2 inch hose n it will not go on. Finally force it one about an 1/8 of an inch or so and seal the other tube.
Should I worry or just wait n see? The other side of this hood takes 3/8 inch hose but I'm out. I met my OG at 1.07 but I am worried about changing the blow off cap during mid fermentation as it'll be Monday before I can get to the home brew store.
I have a 6.5 gal carboy. Drew a line at the 5.5 gal mark and had my bucket of star san, equipment cleaned, and carboy full of star san. So let's brew.
Well first full boil with extract was fine. A lot of hop additions and such but everything at the right time.
So at flame out my dad starts the chiller and I go put the necessary items in the sanitizer .
As the wort got to proper temp we immediately transferred it to the carboy. It had some bubbles from the star san but I know that's fine. Well all those bubbles steadily formed a huge mass of bubbles and with some wort left I had green star san foam from all the hop particulate oozing out of the carboy. So we have to wait and pour a lil at a time. Finally get that in and realize with all the hop particulate and yeast from starter I ended up closer to six gals of wort. So now I know I need a blow off hose . The 1/2 id hose will not fit over the stem in the plastic airlock.
Now I'm panicked so I find my blow off cap that's plastic that has to antenna looking things. Dip in star san and put it on. Then I try to force on the hose to the larger part that's suppose to take a 1/2 inch hose n it will not go on. Finally force it one about an 1/8 of an inch or so and seal the other tube.
Should I worry or just wait n see? The other side of this hood takes 3/8 inch hose but I'm out. I met my OG at 1.07 but I am worried about changing the blow off cap during mid fermentation as it'll be Monday before I can get to the home brew store.