iamjonsharp
Well-Known Member
So I brewed up this small 3 gallon batch of barleywine, pitched her on a yeast cake of London Ale III into a 5 gallon carboy on Tuesday evening. Just put the good ol' airlock on. Fermentation started real quick, was bubbling within a few hours.
Wednesday morning, bubbling like crazy, but only about an 1 inch of krausen. Wednesday night, bubbling had slowed a bit, krausen was about the same, so no blow off tube needed....
Thursday morning, go to check on it...crap, krausen has filled up all the headspace in the carboy and clogged the airlock, but the airlock hadn't blown off yet. Better take off the airlock and attach a blowoff hose...
So I take off the airlock, and THE KRAUSEN ERUPTS LIKE A VOLCANO DIRECTLY INTO MY FACE STINGING MY EYES WITH THE FURY OF SEVEN SWIFT CROTCH PUNCHES....GAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wednesday morning, bubbling like crazy, but only about an 1 inch of krausen. Wednesday night, bubbling had slowed a bit, krausen was about the same, so no blow off tube needed....
Thursday morning, go to check on it...crap, krausen has filled up all the headspace in the carboy and clogged the airlock, but the airlock hadn't blown off yet. Better take off the airlock and attach a blowoff hose...
So I take off the airlock, and THE KRAUSEN ERUPTS LIKE A VOLCANO DIRECTLY INTO MY FACE STINGING MY EYES WITH THE FURY OF SEVEN SWIFT CROTCH PUNCHES....GAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
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