Fermentation spilling

[kerouaciancomedy]

Hey guys,

I've currently got 2 5-gallon batches of beer fermenting, one an IPA, the other a Witbier. The IPA is doing fine, but their seems to be a problem with the Witbier. After a day of fermentation the airlock we were using started to fill with foam, and now yeast/liquid has spilled out of it. Is this just a problem of volume? or could it be something we did wrong when pitching the yeast?

 

[borovy3488]

It sounds to me like you just have a very active fermentation. This happened to me recently, and I had to add a blowoff tube. If you have some tubing you can run through the top of the bucket and into a container of water, it would catch all the sediment and still function as an airlock.

There are a few examples of this in the forum.

 

[Revvy]

You did nothing wrong, unless your fermentations temps are really high, more than likely you just have extremely active fermentation. It happens to all of us.

we've all had complete bucket blowoffs, and our beers survive. Your beer is protected by a layer, but it's co2 and not oxygen.

Watch these videos of one of my beers...that came out fine. ANd clean up your mess and rig up a blowoff tube.

 

[Scroto]

Strictly a volume issue...

You could rig up a blow off tube so that the krausen has a little bit more room.

Like so...