Fermenter bucket is whistling?

[OpenSights]

Made a batch of cider Sunday and put it in a brand new fermenter, new airlock, normal action other than once and a while you hear a high pitch whistle coming from it. I checked the seal of the lid, seems fine, bunghole is not torn. I’m not worried about it, just wondering why or if anyone has experienced this before.

 

[Sparkncode]

Maybe its possessed and needs an exorcism ?

Trying to cheer itself up because it wanted to be fermenting beer and nor cider?

The cider is having nightmares about becomming infected?


Nah just a leak somewhere you haven't found yet. Could be a seel needed to be a bit damp to seel or beeing new it just needs to mould into a better fit over a few uses

 

[OpenSights]

Lol!

I do have two 1 gallon ciders that became infected in the secondary. I’m going to try an experiment and put them in third fermenters and treat with campden.

I always spray the lid and bunghole with starsan as lube, so that would the explain the noise, had I not sprayed it I probably wouldn’t know it has a leak. I’ll have to mark it so I don’t use it for beer.

 

[stickyfinger]

did you recognize the tune?

 

[OpenSights]

I would describe it as a quiet high pitched fart every two or three minutes about 2 seconds long. Lol

It went quite sometime last night as fermentation has started to slow.

 

[stickyfinger]

sounds like a middle schooler's dream

 

[day_trippr]

I wonder how close it got to a lid-launch?

Cheers!

 

[OpenSights]

I wonder how close it got to a lid-launch?

Cheers!

Now that might be something right there! Maybe my fermenter’s flaw prevented that. On buckets I do see the lids bulge during the initial start.