HughBrooks
Well-Known Member
Good morning homebrewers! I am currently brewing my 6th batch, Ipswich Oatmeal Stout clone. Brewed it friday and used my new aeration stone along with my wyeast american ale yeast that had been on my mixing plate for about 60 hours. I was very exited as I have never had a fermentaion where the airlock over flowed with kraeusen. I went to bed last night with good active fermentation...figured it had peaked. So I left my airlock in as I normally would and went to bed. Woke up this mornin' to find my airlock sputtering foam sheet wrapped around my 6.5gal carboy soaked with overflowing goodness! I was very excited! So I quikly rigged a new airlock with a blowoff hose. I guess the aeraition and the yeast starter worked wonders. I made starters every time before but never with a mixing plate. If you do not have one of thse I highly recomend it becouse it is great! The aeration kit I used was a more beer kit that a LHBS resales...it has the aqaurium pump with an air filter and a stainless steel diffusion stone plus all the tubing for around 32 bucks. Worth it!