Never had this issue with a wheat beer but is this just a vigorous fermentation or something bad happening? It was brewed last Friday and everything was clean and sanitized. I used a liquid yeast pack not a starter. Smelled just fine.
Should I have used a blow off tube?
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That’s completely normal. You should have used a blow off tube.
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I use an ordinary 6.5 gallon bucket, only do 5 gallon batches and never even come close to a blow-off. I check, too. I'm down in the basement with a flashlight during the early days of fermentation and the krausen, though nice, doesn't approach the top. I do a lot of high ABVs (up to 11%).
OP used liquid but not a starter. I've used liquid for wheat beers plenty of times. I always thought the potentially large amount of liquid from a starter was the culprit.
I use dry yeast, sometimes two packs.
Anyone know what I'm missing?
Edit: 9/20/18 I'll re-post this in its own thread.
OP used liquid but not a starter. I've used liquid for wheat beers plenty of times. I always thought the potentially large amount of liquid from a starter was the culprit.
I use dry yeast, sometimes two packs.
Anyone know what I'm missing?
Edit: 9/20/18 I'll re-post this in its own thread.
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davidabcd
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Is that more beer in the background or colored fermenters?
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tooblue02
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To keep the wife happy there is 15 gallons of wine that is about to be bottled
I have this situation every time when I'm using weizen yeast (hefeweizen, rauchweizen, weizenbock).
You should do this:
Put one end of hose into blow-off tube and second put into bottle of water. The yeast will go via hose to the water. There is no yeast mess and you minimize risk of infection.
You should do this:
Put one end of hose into blow-off tube and second put into bottle of water. The yeast will go via hose to the water. There is no yeast mess and you minimize risk of infection.
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That is so cool! The photo makes me want to make it for my wife. I never even considered it being wine (beer blinders). Thanks.
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tooblue02
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I usually only use a blow off tube when I pitch with a yeast starter, never seen such vigorous fermentation without one. I will probably start using one on all batches just to make sure this doesn’t happen again and risk the infection. Thanks!
VirginiaHops1
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You should probably use a blow-off at least for the first day or two if that's happening. I never had an issue with the couple of batches I did in buckets, but the last few in my 3 gallon Better Bottles haven't had a lot of head space. One did the thing in your picture(gunked up the airlock) but it stayed intact. The other batch with S-04 completely blew off my bung/airlock and made a bit of a mess in the FC. Live and learn
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