'Fess up! Who is guilty of staring at the damned airlock??

[Conan]

I hate them fruitflies! They really liked the rhubarb wheat I did, but that could've been time of year too. And yes- every time I'm near my beer I'm on my knees, sniffing and watchin. Try to get my friends to take a whiff but most of them look at me like I'm nuts- I tell them they can taste the beer in the smell and then they do it. Usually don't get quite the strength from it that I seem to though. Gotta love brewin! Kyle

 

[Penguin]

for long secondary ive taken to filling the airlock with vodka. no fruit flies there.

 

[Pi Kapp Beer Guy]

Sniffing and yeah i've even tasted the excess blow off running down the side of my carboy from out of the airlock. Hmm nothing like Krausen mixed with vodka i always say. I think i am switching to a blow off tube.

 

[Borisbbadd]

I'm guilty also...............

 

[andypenning]

After a few particularly messy fermentations, I've converted to blowoff tubes on my primaries. Man, that is WAAAAAAY more entertaining than staring at the airlock. blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub!

+1 Pull up a couch pillow and enjoy the show!

 

[jpuf]

I'm a watcher and a sniffer.
Fermentation is natures way of smiling

 

[Peregris]

Staring, sniffing, tasting...I'm guilty of everything except junk-rubbing. My three-year old son is not a starer (yet) but he checks the airlock every time he's in the basement reporting to me with a "Yep, still burping!"

 

[MauiMaltMan]

Guilty.

I like going all "mad scientist" and cackling to myself that my little yeasties are doing their master's bidding.

 

[schweaty]

I listen to the airlock as it lets out the CO2 and watch the action going on inside the carboy

 

[ohiobrewtus]

I admit that I was very guilty of this when I first started brewing. I still do it from time to time when I'm pitching slurry because I want to see how quickly fermentation kicks off. For the most part I just let them do their thing now and whenever I'm in the basement I'll check on them and give the airlock a good sniff to make sure that everything is going as it should.

 

[Blanda]

Maybe because I'm a newbie, but I'm all the way hipnotized with the airlock. I think I did almost everything but the junk-rubbing thing, so I'll try that!!!
To keep my fermenter at perfect temp. I put it in my bedroom, so I hear him all night long. It's like the best lullaby ever!
So that makes me... An airlock-lullaby lover??? I know it's not as kinky as the junk-rubbing thing, but you should really try it.

Cheers

 

[farrout]

yup, I usually stand over it and sniff away!

 

[bbrim]

Put an 80 shilling Scottish in the carboy yesterday afternoon, have been to the basement 8 times since 6:00 PM last night to take a gander. It's my first partial mash, tried crushing the grain by hand; I already ordered a maltmill barley crusher!
I, too, am guilty of sniffing the airlock, of daydreaming for hours a day about the next brew, talking non-stop about my next batch with anyone who still listens to me...etc.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

Link, please!

[ame="http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/item/airlock-sniffer-long-sleeve-dark-tshirt/257434417"]Here we go[/ame], bringing an old thread to life

 

[JoeMama]

LOL Yessir! I love the fact that I get to keep my brew closet in my clothes closet. I get to wake up to the wonderful smell of fermenting beer in the AM when I get dressed.

And yes, my wife thinks Im nuts when I lie down on the floor next to my buckets to watch them bubble away. It never gets old...
-Me

 

[reim0027]

I love to look at the airlock. Even though I KNOW it doesn't tell me squat about fermentation, an active airlock is somehow "magical". Ceasing to care about the airlock will be the start of my transition out of noobness.

 

[Maddmann]

Made a batch of creame stout yesterday. Most of the time today has been spent watching the beloved airlock. And the smell is great too!

 

[polecreek]

I live for the Rhino farts! Could it get any better, its like porn magazines if they had scratch and sniff.

 

[Joos]

My buddy just left my house.Iv'e been trying to get him to sniff my airlock all night!I don't think he knew what i was talking about but ****!I have an IPA in there!Sniff it!!!

 

[nowise]

Yep I'm a sniffer. Especially hours after I pitch the yeast when you get those fart smells and you know you are golden.

 

[eschatz]

Yeah, my fermenters always bubble and it smells like hops.

 

[BrewinJack]

I admit it, i am a airlock peeping tom... Hell i get so into it i will lay right on the floor and look into the fermenting wort for hours. With a bag of chips and a soda its better then the crap on TV. Everynight i fall alseep to the gental bubble in my air locks all of them bubbling in differnt rythem... Its almost like a waterfall or a fish tank, only you dont have to feed them, or clean them, or buy **** to put in the tank for them... You just brew and wait and then do a few chores everynow and then... its the perfect pet, that gives back


Cheers

 

[chumprock]

Heh.. I just came from the kitchen.. to the carboys.. to the computer.

 

[avaserfi]

It is just so pretty... bubble bubble hickup err, I mean bubble...

 

[ArcaneXor]

I like the bubbles, but what I like even more is my airlocks telling me that there is a tight seal on my Better Bottles when I use them with my carboy caps. They are just many of the ways through which my beers communicate how they are feeling to me

 

[Memorex88]

I use a bucket and press down gently on the lid to get a BIG sniff , gotta love it!

 

[cowstick]

My roomates hate me cause I make them look and smell with me. Oh and watch the krausen and the myrid of movement in the carboy and everything else that comes with brewing. I make them taste the grains smell the hops. They all hate me........untill the beer is done then they love me. Whiney bastards.

 

[sirsloop]

I am a proud

x10000 :rockin:

 

[EdWort]

I'm guilty long ago. Now my buckets are in a chest freezer in the garage. I check on them about once a week. You want to talk about sniffing airlocks, you should sniff a lagerator with 3 fermenters after a week. Whoo Hoo!

 

[Ceedubya]

Blowoff tubes make me happy :rockin:

I've got a stout right now blowin chunks of foam through the tube. My youngest said they look like big tater tots

Love the sound, thump..... thump....... thump.......

Plus, My first batch of Apfelwein brewed for the big day yesterday is bubbling along nicely through the airlock.

It's like a symphony of fermentation in there!

 

[dutchboy62]

Guilty, I have recorded the airlock bubbling on my camera phone and sent it to people that have know idea what it means. Also it allows my to check the video at work.

 

[madm]

did all that for years, its normal right?

 

[Jaybird]

you guys are all a bunch of "Whack Jobs"
























Ok I sniff a little from time to time (does that make me wierd?)

 

[farfromrice]

Has anyone thought of putting there fermenter on a web cam so they can check while at work I know I have

 

[Hodawg]

Note to self; do not swap beer with McKBrew, nor let him add his batch to the Pinot Noir barrel. We don't want THAT kind of funk in the beer.

Mick is sick, isn't he?

Beers,
Ken

 

[farmbrewernw]

It's kind of a not so guilty pleasure shared by I think all homebrewers, I love me the smell of the airlock in the morning.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I'm guilty long ago. Now my buckets are in a chest freezer in the garage. I check on them about once a week. You want to talk about sniffing airlocks, you should sniff a lagerator with 3 fermenters after a week. Whoo Hoo!

A dutch oven for airlocks! Mmmmmmmmm!!!!

 

[PlayMizuno]

I don't sniff so much but I have them in my bathroom closet so I can listen (and watch) their wonderful symphony while I create my own not so wonderful symphony.....

 

[SkewedBrewing]

Has anyone thought of putting there fermenter on a web cam so they can check while at work I know I have

I've thought about it many a time...

I know that someone on here did that a few years back, I'm not sure anyone has tried it since.

As far as looking at/smelling the airlock I am guilty of both, I also keep my fermenter in my bathroom closet (Its the most constant temperature in my apartment) so I find myself taking a peek every morning before work and usually once after.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

All last week I had three beers fermenting..... I got to fall asleep to the lovely *bloop* sound for about 4 days