Ed_
Well-Known Member
If anyone can give any advice on this I'd appreciate it...
I brewed up my first high gravity beer on Saturday night (Dogfish Head 90 min IPA) which took a little while to get going on fermentation. After about 36 hours I started to see regular bubbles coming through the air lock and since over half of my previous brews had a tendency to foam through my airlock I decided to put a blow off tube on the brew this morning (ran into half full a 2 quart pitcher). Well I get home from class around 7:30 and the top is bulged to the point it's obviously about to blow. I figure that the airlock's intake has gotten clogged since the pitcher already has turned amber from the run off so I switch it out with another sanitized one which bleeds off the pressure. So after 30 minutes I go back down stairs and the freakin thing is about to blow again and when I push down on the top to bleed off the pressure on the new airlock, no air will come through. I take the new airlock out and push down on the top again and I get what would account for about half a cup of foam.
So apparently this freaking krausen is possessed to the point that without some level of intervention it will blow off the top of my primary. So knowing my current plight does anyone know anything that will keep my ceiling from getting coated? Any replies within the next three hours will be GREATLY appreciated.
I brewed up my first high gravity beer on Saturday night (Dogfish Head 90 min IPA) which took a little while to get going on fermentation. After about 36 hours I started to see regular bubbles coming through the air lock and since over half of my previous brews had a tendency to foam through my airlock I decided to put a blow off tube on the brew this morning (ran into half full a 2 quart pitcher). Well I get home from class around 7:30 and the top is bulged to the point it's obviously about to blow. I figure that the airlock's intake has gotten clogged since the pitcher already has turned amber from the run off so I switch it out with another sanitized one which bleeds off the pressure. So after 30 minutes I go back down stairs and the freakin thing is about to blow again and when I push down on the top to bleed off the pressure on the new airlock, no air will come through. I take the new airlock out and push down on the top again and I get what would account for about half a cup of foam.
So apparently this freaking krausen is possessed to the point that without some level of intervention it will blow off the top of my primary. So knowing my current plight does anyone know anything that will keep my ceiling from getting coated? Any replies within the next three hours will be GREATLY appreciated.