HELP! No carboy stopper!

[keven_chambers]

Brewing 10 gallons of IPA and realized that we never thought to get a second stopper for our other carboy.

Is there an easy alternative to the stopper? Just siphoned to secondary fermentation.

 

[k1ngl1ves]

You can try the ol' saran wrap with a rubber band trick. Sanitize first of course.







Go get another stopper tomorrow too...

 

[chrishanson]

Most hardware stores also carry 1 inch vinyl tubing that would fit in the neck of the carboy as a blow off tube.

 

[Weezy]

Anything will work. The whole point is to keep bacteria et al that is floating in the air from getting into your beer. It doesn't need to be some hermetically sealed environment.

 

[PackerfaninSanDiego]

gotta sponge stopper from your yeast starter flask?

 

[Singletrack]

Sanitized aluminum foil. Used for yeast starters all the time.

 

[sfgoat]

Sanitize the inside of a ballon and stretch it over the neck. Then just put a tiny pin hole or two in it to let gas escape.

 

[NTXBrauer]

+1 on the rubber band and plastic wrap. Just don't tighten the rubber band too tight, and consistently spray sanitizer all around it. This will suffice until you can get a blow off tube or new bung.

 

[AlCophile]

Not bad, goat; use a thin poly food bag, like Baggies, sanitized. A balloon will slide off when it pressures-up. Use a snug-but-not-tight bubberand, so gas can escape w/o popping bag off.

 

[mwsenoj]

Aluminum foil should do you okay. Remember, guys do open fermentations all the time and they get good beer. I just did a successful test batch in a growler with just a foil "airlock"