BeerPressure
Well-Known Member
Gonna be brewing AHBS belgian wit on sunday, im gonna be pitching a starter from whitelabs belgian wit yeast. Was wondering if i should just go right for a blowoff tube for this one? i have a feeling it will need it.
i'll be using a bucket for primary. Never heard of doing that before, whats the theory behind it?I say you should brew the beer and then put it on a scale. If the combined weight of the beer and the bucket are more than 34 pounds, use a blowoff tube. Otherwise you should be safe. If you're using a carboy, this equation will not work.
The first answer was right and I'm bored.
Although, if you think about it I should have said something more along the lines of 43 pounds. 8 pounds to a gallon of normal water plus whatever saturation of sugars, etc. in the bucket could probably give you a reasonable estimation of the headroom left in a standard bucket, giving more room for krausen, which means there'd be less chance of a blowoff.
I'd say just use the tube.
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