brianwaynemiller
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I was going to post this in the Yeast/Fermentation board, but this is such a rookie screwup I've relegated myself here.
I awoke early the morning after brew day to some particularly aggressive krausen coming through my 3-piece airlock and threatening to pop the lid off 6 gallon ale pail.
(Before you scold me for not using a blowoff tube in the first place: I normally use a 6gal Better Bottle with blowoff tube for primary, but I've got multiple batches going right now and the bucket was all that was available and clean, so in it goes.)
After cleaning/sanitizing/replacing the airlock multiple times (it would fill up in about 5 minutes), I made the rash/sleepy/hung over decision that this beer needed to go into a different vessel lest I paint my walls with beer. So I cleaned and sanitized everything and siphoned to the aforementioned Better Bottle w/ blowoff.
Now, I know this isn't ideal, I'm just wondering how badly I've damaged the beer. Fermentation continued to be aggressive for another 12 hours or so, but what's in the tank right now is REALLY cloudy, even though there's already a nice layer of trub/yeast collecting on the bottom.
Has anybody done this before? Extensive thread searching leads me to believe nobody has. Thoughts? (FWIW, if it even matters, this is my Pumking-esque beer, OG: 1.072, using rehydrated Safale S-04.)
I awoke early the morning after brew day to some particularly aggressive krausen coming through my 3-piece airlock and threatening to pop the lid off 6 gallon ale pail.
(Before you scold me for not using a blowoff tube in the first place: I normally use a 6gal Better Bottle with blowoff tube for primary, but I've got multiple batches going right now and the bucket was all that was available and clean, so in it goes.)
After cleaning/sanitizing/replacing the airlock multiple times (it would fill up in about 5 minutes), I made the rash/sleepy/hung over decision that this beer needed to go into a different vessel lest I paint my walls with beer. So I cleaned and sanitized everything and siphoned to the aforementioned Better Bottle w/ blowoff.
Now, I know this isn't ideal, I'm just wondering how badly I've damaged the beer. Fermentation continued to be aggressive for another 12 hours or so, but what's in the tank right now is REALLY cloudy, even though there's already a nice layer of trub/yeast collecting on the bottom.
Has anybody done this before? Extensive thread searching leads me to believe nobody has. Thoughts? (FWIW, if it even matters, this is my Pumking-esque beer, OG: 1.072, using rehydrated Safale S-04.)