Help!

[newfiebrew]

Hi all just got up this morning after doing my first all grain yesterday to a bubbling airlock and alot of krausen and just now the airlock blew off in my face!

Guess I need to do something but I don't have any large size tubing to fit the opening of the glass carboy only smaller tubing.Can you put smaller tubing on the airlock itself somehow?? Tubing is 5/16th i think.

help please.

 

[newfiebrew]

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[Braufessor]

Yes - it works especially well if you have a 3 piece airlock .... Clean off the airlock and rubber stopper if needed. Sanitize with starsan. I break off the little pieces of plastic that are on the very tip of the bottom of the airlock so they don't plug with debris....
Sanitize a length of tubing. Put it on airlock and other end in jar/jug of star san should be good. I will try to link a picture in a second.

 

[unionrdr]

See if the tubing will fit the bung you had the airlock in. Just sanitize it inside & out first. Then run it into a jug or something with water & a little Starsan.

 

[Jay-Brew]

Hi all just got up this morning after doing my first all grain yesterday to a bubbling airlock and alot of krausen and just now the airlock blew off in my face!

Guess I need to do something but I don't have any large size tubing to fit the opening of the glass carboy only smaller tubing.Can you put smaller tubing on the airlock itself somehow?? Tubing is 5/16th i think.

help please.

I don't recall the size of the tubing I used, but I have connected tubing directly to the inside of a 3 piece airlock in the past and inserted the bung into the fermenter as usual. Ran the tubing into a container of Star San, and it worked just fine.

 

[Hoppity]

Only one way to find out if it fits. Try putting end of tube in boiling water to soften it up. Go McGyver!

 

[Braufessor]

Like this:

http://s21.photobucket.com/user/Thorstein/media/beer/blowofftube.jpg.html

 

[Braufessor]

And, like I said, I cut off those little tabs right at the tip of the airlock tube to keep it from plugging up. Just the little taps though - a few millimeters.

http://www.austinhomebrew.com/core/media/media.nl?id=1876&c=3608149&h=57f5c7e4d8405512249a

 

[kh54s10]

All the above... And start EVERY fermentation with a blow off tube set up.

 

[newfiebrew]

Thanks guys problem solved and yes I did cut off the tabs



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[newfiebrew]

And I thought I underpitched my yeast as some got left in the packet...guess enough made it in...lol

 

[plumber8302]

What size tubing did you end up using?


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