Missing airlock, what to do

[chriswilkes33]

I planned on brewing today but dont have another airlock, All 3 are in use. Unfortunatly my LHBS is closed for the holiday today, I do have a drilled stopper that will fit the bucket. Anyone have ideas or should I just wait for tomorrow and go buy a new airlock and miss out on a great free brew day?

Can I rig a blowoff using the stopper and some tubing or do I need the airlock still to do that?

 

[BigKahuna]

Can I rig a blowoff using the stopper and some tubing or do I need the airlock still to do that?

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Sure. Use the tubing and the bung. make sure it's submurged in water. I'ts like a mini blow off!

BREW DAMMIT BREW!

 

[Seawolfe]

+1 Tubing from the bung submersed into a jug of water IS an airlock. GO BREW!!

 

[bergman1118]

+2 make a blowoff set up. i brew w/ a 5 gallon carboy and i always have blowoff for the first few days until fermentation subsides (or enough beer is blown off to where i can put a ferm lock on). has worked perfectly for the 5 or so batches i have done

 

[chriswilkes33]

So I decided to skip the brewing last week in the absense of the airlock. I did however decide to make a MLT. Im on my way down the road now to Austin Homebrew to get all grain rather than using the exract I got last time