kit came in, need help with the airlock

[jourelemode]

hey guys, so my equipment kit came in, and my first brew is gonna be a belgian dubel and the ingredient kit came with a liquid belgian yeast. Now I know that I should probably use a blow off for this and not the airlock because not doing so may cause a mess. Here's my question, the lid on my fermenting bucket only has a small hole only big enough to fit a tiny stopper just a tad bigger than the size of the insertion tip of the airlock. How do make a blow off setup for this? do I just get a tiny tube that will fit in that stopper?

thanks

 

[ajf]

What sort of airlock do you have? 3 piece, or S type. If you have a 3 piece, you can add some 1/2" ID tubing over the center. If you have the S type, I don't know how you could do it.

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[abweatherley]

two options really, use smaller tubing don't know how effective that would be.

2) get another lid and drill a hole in it to take larger tubing.

 

[midfielder5]

does the lid have a rubber grommet?
if so, you can pull that out and stick the blow-off tube directly into the lid.

 

[jourelemode]

ok, its a 3 pc. airlock...so what you're saying is to attach a tube to the piece in the center of the airlock?

getting another lid might be the only way if attaching a tube directly to the airlock doesn't sound good enough. what do you guys think?

as for the lid, there's nothing on attached to the hole. I measured the hole and its 1 and 7/10cm

 

[Germelli1]

also I reccomend you cut the tip of the airlock off. By this I mean most 3 pieces come with some sort of tappered end (the end that is inside of the lid). This can cause a clog resulting in a protectile lid, airlock or all of the above. Cut it off just above where the tip is tapered or partially covered.

 

[jourelemode]

also I reccomend you cut the tip of the airlock off. By this I mean most 3 pieces come with some sort of tappered end (the end that is inside of the lid). This can cause a clog resulting in a protectile lid, airlock or all of the above. Cut it off just above where the tip is tapered or partially covered.

i see what you're saying...ok, ill cut that off. thanks for the heads up!

 

[Germelli1]

Haha glad to help!

Just so I don't lead you into erroneously hacking apart your airlock, I mean the very bottom tip in this picture

 

[Revvy]

take your bottling wand hose or other suitable one, put a small slit in it...Heat it for a few minutes in hot water to soften, then do this.

One thing that I do to all my airlocks is saw or break off the little criss/cross of plastic on the bottom of them.

 

[jourelemode]

take your bottling wand hose or other suitable one, put a small slit in it...Heat it for a few minutes in hot water to soften, then do this.

One thing that I do to all my airlocks is saw or break off the little criss/cross of plastic on the bottom of them.

so you think the little tube that's used for siphoning is adequate enough for this?

 

[Revvy]

so you think the little tube that's used for siphoning is adequate enough for this?

Well, since I posted it, and have been posting it when people ask about it for years, you would think that that would be the case, right?

(I'm the guy that first introduced the idea of the airlock blowoff tube on here.)

 

[jourelemode]

ok cool, one last thing, you've used this method before with belgian yeast without any problems?

 

[Revvy]

It doesn't matter whether it is belgian yeast, or american yeast or chinese yeast, a blow off, is a blow off is a blow off.....If you need to use one, it works.....

 

[lumpher]

take your bottling wand hose or other suitable one, put a small slit in it...Heat it for a few minutes in hot water to soften, then do this.

One thing that I do to all my airlocks is saw or break off the little criss/cross of plastic on the bottom of them.

nice, revvy! never thought of that. going to convert 1 airlock/tube combo to this before my next brew

 

[Revvy]

When you have a blowoff happening, and it si 5 in the morning, and you need to get ready for work, you get mcguyverish really quick.

 

[lumpher]

been there; not too long ago was there with a stopped up airlock, lid laying on the floor 7 feet away, ipa krausened up really good, and had to be at work shortly. put the lid back on, replaced the airlock with a fresh 1, and sweated the whole day hoping it didn't happen again. learned a long time ago to put the fresh fermenter in a tote as soon as i pitched, so if it overflowed, it stayed in the tote... this should stop that from happening again