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

[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

 

[SCARYLARRY]

Yep Guilty as charged!! My women hates it when I go babe you have to come smell this. She thinks I'm a freaking idiot.

 

[wigstr]

Sometimes I stare at the airlock, to see if I can see the first bubble... SWMBO thinks I am weird.

 

[Doog_Si_Reeb]

Guilty... I recently got one of the dry-lock valves for my Better Bottle and I get bummed because I can't see bubbling... but I can hear it clicking.

 

[Ceedubya]

There's a cure for that, you know? Sniff the airlock on a batch of EdWort's Apfelwein 3-4 days into fermentation.

HOOOO WEEEE you ain't kidding! I just walked past my fermenters, and of course had to give a courtesy sniff. Took a deep breath of the stout (that is still blowing off)..... YUUMMMMMMMM

Then looking at all of those bubbles running through the airlock on the Apfelwein from Saturdays brew I just had to take a try.....

I'm not sure if its the bubbles themselves or something they pick up running through the vodka in the airlock but dang, that stuff is potent.

 

[Tripod]

Here we go, bringing an old thread to life

I so very much HAVE to get that shirt!

I'm spellbound by a Newcastle Clone at the moment....can't talk.....bubbling....

-Tripod

 

[burger_76]

Guilty as well. Don't even talk to the SWMBO when I get home from work. Straight to the basement to check on my brew. Stare at the bubbles and sniff the airlock

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

Guilty as charged. Currently watching some apfelwein.

 

[McKBrew]

Not as much anymore. Usually once it's in primary I just ignore it for a couple weeks. If I stopped and stared, I'd probably be hypnotized and never leave.

 

[Ceedubya]

I got my wife to sniff em tonight

first I told her to sniff the stout, she took a wiff and says "it smells like beer" (with kind of a "duh" feeling in her voice). So, then I tell her to take a big wiff of the next one, which happens to be an Apfelwein. She takes a snoot full and about turned green "That smells like a rank fart!" she says!

 

[winzerz]

well I dont go for staring at the airlock

but I do the Vulcan Mindmeld almost every night

as I have 2 batches bubbling I get a twofer