Okay, I got my first batch in the fermenter (6.5G bucket) yesterday. Chose to go without an overflow. Came home from work today and this stuff is bubbling like crazy about 24 hrs in (It is a Hefeweizen/WL300 yeast starter/SG 1.050). It is bubbling like once per second, maybe even more than that. Thought rather than risk a blow up I pulled the airlock, sanitized some tubing and am running it throught the grommet hole into sanitizer in my growler. I soaked a piece of paper towel with sanitizer and shoved it around the tube to hold it in place in the growler. It is now bubbling in the overflow. Tubing was the size you use to hook up to the bottler, not real sure of the size, and like I said it is being held pretty firmly by the grommet hole in the bucket. Does this sound like an okay thing, or am I just freaking like a brand new parent?
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It will probably be fine. I use a 1/2" tube for blow-off, but that gets stuck on an airlock. So, really, the end that goes into the fermenter is probably the same size or smaller than the hose you're using.
strat_thru_marshall
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Sounds fine to me, after a few days you can pull the tube and put your sanitized airlock back on. WLP300 goes nuts for the first couple of days then eases off. Several brews ago with that yeast I created a beer geyser in my guest bathroom that was shooting all the way to the ceiling! I always use a blow off with that one now for the first few days.
Thanks for the responses. One thing I did do was remove the paper towel from around the tube at the neck of the growler. It was holding air in. Made a nice little pffffffft sound when I removed it. Now ther air has an escape. Good to see it bubblin!
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