Narrowly avoided a Krausen Bomb

[JefeTheVol]

I checked on my brown ale this morning after pitching the yeast, yesterday and the airlock was full of foam and it was close to shooting into the air. I quickly switched to a blow-off tube and the crisis was averted. Lesson learned, when in doubt, use a blow-off tube.
-Jefe-

 

[Grizzlybrew]

Yeah, a good lesson. I don't use an airlock until I get it the secondary or 2 weeks if I'm leaving it in the primary

 

[TheDutchman]

The man speaks wisdom. I woke up Saturday morning to find a massive explosion of Breakfast Stout (OG 1.085) all over my garage. It totally covered the inside of the fridge I ferment in, leaked out the door after filling the drawer, ran down the length of the garage floor and glued the door down with chocolatey, coffee-y, roasty goo. It was tragic and kind of beautiful at the same time. Sad to lose the beer, but the smells that filled my garage... Yummy. Upon cleanup, I'd lost over a gallon of beer

So yeah, use a blow off tube.

 

[petep1980]

My second batch in a row krausen made it into the airlock. For whatever reason I didn't think it'd be much of an issue. Yeah, I was using Notty on a 1.072 partial grain...like that's not gonna ferment like crazy.

Gotta love when the lid to your fermenter is bowed an inch.

 

[ReeseAllen]

Earlier this week I swapped the blow-off tube for a bubbler cap on a carboy too early and woke up the next morning to a krausen volcano. It was all over the place and a krausen snake was still actively coming up out of the top. Pacman yeast was unexpectedly vigorous and the initial fermentation lasted most of the week!