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

[BADS197]

I have along with my 3.5yr old daughter.

So now when she is with me and I ask her to see if it's done... she runs to the back room and looks at the "bubbles" and comes back to tell me the status.


I know bubbles dont mean jack, but it gives her some sense of helping Daddy. Along with cleaning labels off bottles.

 

[Pivzavod]

I confess and I have video proof - [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa5dfIXw-9c]YouTube - i've awaken a monster[/ame]

 

[beerthirty]

I'll admit it, as long as you admit that you've also sniffed the airlock.

C'mon, I know you have.

I don't have to sniff, just opening the freezer fills the room with the aroma. The real admission would be if you tasted the airlock. To that I say no, but I have thought about harvesting form the blow off bottle.

 

[michael88n]

Hi there! My name is Michael.

And I'm an Airlock Sniffer.



...
I need the link to buy one of those t-shirts...

 

[McKBrew]

I like to straddle the airlock and rub my junk all over it.

 

[Saccharomyces]

Nothing like a good whiff off the airlock early on. Smells great. My cats are obsessed with blowoff rigs. They put their faces down into the bucket and jump when it bubbles, then do it over and over.. I stare at them.

 

[EvilTOJ]

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.

 

[misterVT]

Another looker and sniffer here. I bring friends down to the basement to have a sniff. Most of them don't get it at all so that's more yeasty goodness for me.

 

[bad coffee]

Guilty! I could smell the batch of cider from the top of the basement stairs. I went down to get a really good whiff!

It already is one, that's where I stole the idea from.

Link, please!

B

 

[kappclark]

I am guilty of NOT watching the airlock, and today looked to find many fruitflies who had found their way through the cap.

 

[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.