PsiNyde
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I bought some GY054 (Conan) a few weeks ago. I used (6) 1 fl oz vials, and split the yeast up. Taking one of those vials, I stepped it up once with 1qt of 1.040 and 1/4 tsp nutrient.
This is what I got after 24 hours on the stir plate. There was evidence of krausen on the inside of the foil.
Made the base for "Mango Fandango", an all grain near-clone of Mango Magnifico. All adjuncts go in secondary, so it's just straight beer when I aerate and pitch, leaving roughly 20% head space (see below pics- wort came almost up to lowest rib on bucket). OG was 1.081.
This morning, after twelve hours at 62° ambient temp in the house, I find this.
With no way to MacGyver that **** to a hose, and no time left to rack to carboy, I am left with only one solution: remove airlock, loosen lid half way to prevent any Conan guysers, and leave it be until tonight when I can fix something up.
My wife returns home at lunch time, and sends me this text with photo attached, "what do I do?"
I'm seriously laughing at this point - loudly. I share with a few buddies, we all chuckle. I tell her to quickly sanitize a bowl and scoop krausen out (a loss of yeast I was willing to take at this point), replace lid.
Wife sends another text about 30 minutes ago with photo attached, "I'm about to put this outside. I'm getting sick of cleaning up beer mess today."
We live in NH, so I don't want that outside, it'll freeze. I ask her to reconsider, and she replies immediately with what I can only describe as something a loving wife who tolerates her husband's hobby could have done: a smiley face with another photo attached.
It's been almost 24 hours since I pitched it, and that yeast has been going to TOWN! She used sanitized equipment and scooped out krausen after the first blowoff, which has me somewhat amazed at how it managed to blowoff again just a few hours later. This is my first batch with Conan, so I didn't know what to expect.
Homebrew problems.
Anybody else had this happen with Conan before? Aside from a) bigger fermenter, or b) split batch after pitch to allow for 40-50% head space, anybody got any ideas?
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This is what I got after 24 hours on the stir plate. There was evidence of krausen on the inside of the foil.
Made the base for "Mango Fandango", an all grain near-clone of Mango Magnifico. All adjuncts go in secondary, so it's just straight beer when I aerate and pitch, leaving roughly 20% head space (see below pics- wort came almost up to lowest rib on bucket). OG was 1.081.
This morning, after twelve hours at 62° ambient temp in the house, I find this.
With no way to MacGyver that **** to a hose, and no time left to rack to carboy, I am left with only one solution: remove airlock, loosen lid half way to prevent any Conan guysers, and leave it be until tonight when I can fix something up.
My wife returns home at lunch time, and sends me this text with photo attached, "what do I do?"
I'm seriously laughing at this point - loudly. I share with a few buddies, we all chuckle. I tell her to quickly sanitize a bowl and scoop krausen out (a loss of yeast I was willing to take at this point), replace lid.
Wife sends another text about 30 minutes ago with photo attached, "I'm about to put this outside. I'm getting sick of cleaning up beer mess today."
We live in NH, so I don't want that outside, it'll freeze. I ask her to reconsider, and she replies immediately with what I can only describe as something a loving wife who tolerates her husband's hobby could have done: a smiley face with another photo attached.
It's been almost 24 hours since I pitched it, and that yeast has been going to TOWN! She used sanitized equipment and scooped out krausen after the first blowoff, which has me somewhat amazed at how it managed to blowoff again just a few hours later. This is my first batch with Conan, so I didn't know what to expect.
Homebrew problems.
Anybody else had this happen with Conan before? Aside from a) bigger fermenter, or b) split batch after pitch to allow for 40-50% head space, anybody got any ideas?
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