Hankhill11
Well-Known Member
3rd batch of beer. It was a Caribou Slobber from northern brewer. Blowout was within 12-18 hours of pitching yeast.
It was huge. About 3.5 gallons was ejected from a 5 gallon glass carboy. The only lucky part was that I made a refrigerator into a fermentation chamber, and the blowout happened from within. Even with that, it still blew open the door and obviously the frig isn't meant to hold that much liquid, so it all ran out, and there was spray in a cone area out from the door. needless to say it was an enormous mess, and not something I want to deal with again.
I had a blow off tube using a two piece air lock base, as most folks do. I think the only difference was, the airlock i happened to use was the kind with the little 'X' of plastic at the bottom of the tube, which i think clogged.
From now on I'll make sure to use only ones with as opened a bottom as possible, and may even cut them back a bit to get an even wider opening. I had thought about drilling a couple stoppers and using short lengths of copper pipe, and the next size up tubing. anyone do anything like that?
It was huge. About 3.5 gallons was ejected from a 5 gallon glass carboy. The only lucky part was that I made a refrigerator into a fermentation chamber, and the blowout happened from within. Even with that, it still blew open the door and obviously the frig isn't meant to hold that much liquid, so it all ran out, and there was spray in a cone area out from the door. needless to say it was an enormous mess, and not something I want to deal with again.
I had a blow off tube using a two piece air lock base, as most folks do. I think the only difference was, the airlock i happened to use was the kind with the little 'X' of plastic at the bottom of the tube, which i think clogged.
From now on I'll make sure to use only ones with as opened a bottom as possible, and may even cut them back a bit to get an even wider opening. I had thought about drilling a couple stoppers and using short lengths of copper pipe, and the next size up tubing. anyone do anything like that?