Thar-She-Blew!

[GLanguell]

How'd your New Years start?? This is what I was greeted to on New Years day...BTW...My Birthday...

The lone carboy WITHOUT the airlock was the Porter that the wife & I brewed on 12/30/09. I checked the carboy on Thursday..not a bubble could be found...

The other carboys are a club brew. O! Not a word was heard when $hit hit the walls & ceiling. The fermentation room is in our apartment in our barn/brewery.

Thank heavens for vis-queen...the carpet is in great shape, one closet curtain soaked up a bunch of wort. The walls and ceiling cleaning up real nice!! So all's good now. Oh yea, the air lock took a fatal hit. Knock a chunk out and a hair line fracture running laterally down to the bung...

Enjoy all!
Geno

 

[GLanguell]

Ok..how can I upload a pic??

 

[Nurmey]

You don't have enough posts racked up to post a pic. Send the pic to me and I'll put it up for you.

 

[boogyman]

or put it up on photobucket/imageshack/another free photo service and post the image link

 

[Nurmey]

Pictures of Gene's explosion

 

[TechyDork]

i don't think you have enough beer brewing in there

 

[GLanguell]

All but two of the caboys belong to a club brew. We have a 53 gallon bourbon county barrel. The club brewed a RIS for the barrel. That brew is going well... The wife & I decided to brew a Robust Porter on Wed prior to New Years... Then woke to this mess...

 

[Montanaandy]

"The wife & I decided to brew a Robust Porter on Wed prior to New Years... Then woke to this mess..."

Lucky you. If my wife woke up to find that mess on New Years Day I would not have lived to experience 2010... Montanaandy

 

[SamuraiSquirrel]

wow that it is a lot of beer

 

[mordantly]

bummmmmmer!

 

[GLanguell]

Two blessings on my part... 1st-The wife never LQQKed... Only saw pictures and 2nd, New Years was my birhtday.... Gotta the "B-Day Pass". O! Forgot to mention. The fermentation chamber is located in our two-bedroom apartment in the barn. Wife did mention that carboys are no longer allowed in the house-proper.

 

[Saccharomyces]

I've never used a mop on the ceiling because I always ALWAYS use a blowoff tube for primary fermentation.

Lesson learned.

 

[Montanaandy]

"I've never used a mop on the ceiling because I always ALWAYS use a blowoff tube for primary fermentation."

While I have not had to mop the ceiling per se I have had a several batches that blew out the #10 connected to a blow off tube on the BB. The Wyeast Irish Ale has been the culprit most of the time and that has made a pretty good mess. I just had it happen with an American Ale II jacked up on a large starter. So while I would agree that you want to use a blow off depending on the brew/yeast, I have found that it is not foolproof. Montanaandy

 

[ILOVEBEER]

People have asked me why I do not ferment inside.....this is why. My pregnant wife would not only kick my a$$ but then she would puke all over me from the smell....she couldn't stand the smell before, she DESPISES the smell now that she is pregnant.