foaming into airlock

[Dingu5]

just like the title
i dont know what else shuld go differenet from what i read so far
i did my first parial mash
a honey nut brown
first i took a recipe i tried all extract first and then changed to include grain then
cut it in half to do 3 gallons instead of 5
my og was 1052 (ball was 13.5%)the highest ever recipe's was 1045
anyway when fermentation started it bubled up and filled the airlock which was filled with a dilluted c-brite solution
i pulled the stopper out of my carboy fired the rim with 100proof vodka santized the plug and air lock and replaced when to bed the next morning same thing
I have in the last 4 hours changed and cleaned my airlock 3 times and watching it right now it needs it again
the temp is 66 degrees
things that have gone wrong sofar
i droped the sealed can of c-brite into my wrot while chilling it and fished it out in 2-3 seconds
next i added the a whole package of yeast when i think i should have cut it in half
sorry for the spelling ang grammar errors
any advice before i panic

 

[maida7]

my advice is not to panic.

If the krausen (foam) is so high that it's getting into the airlock then you need to use a blow off tube.

 

[dmob29]

my advice is not to panic.

If the krausen (foam) is so high that it's getting into the airlock then you need to use a blow off tube.

+1 If the airlock gets clogged, pressure will build until it blows off... then you got a mess to clean up!!! One of my buddies had this issue and the airlock didnt blow off, it just created a fountain through the airlock that sprayed all up his wall. Wish I would have seen that, I bet it was a pretty fountain!

 

[brehuh]

Blow off tube FTW! What size is the carboy you are using?

 

[Dingu5]

3 gallon
and what is a blow off tube
sounds like i should extend my air locks male end
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[maida7]

This is a blow off tube. It allows all the foam to travel through the tube to another container. Put some sanitizer in the other container to make it work the same as your airlock.

 

[Hang Glider]

the pic above is great, but you don't have to use a carboy cap - but you do need some way of using a larger tube than the little airlock system: that's for gasses.

Northern Brewer sells 1" tubing that you can jam into the neck of the carboy.

I use a carboy bung-style stopper (drilled stopper): I jammed a PEX connector (Lowes) on it, and a 1/2 hose on the PEX conn.
The rest of it gets submerged in a liquid so nasties can't climb back up the hose. In 3 or 4 days you can put your airlock back on.

 

[Dingu5]

ok that what figured it was you build a bigger air lock more or less but is this normal for high gravity my old setup used the two 6 gallon buckets

 

[dmob29]

If you dont have a cap, here is a pic of what I did... I used some spare tubing I had and cut down a pen cap from Pilot G2 pen. Fits perfectly in the bung where your ferm lock would be!

 

[Dingu5]

thanks guys