weizenbier brewer's best kit and kraeusen amount?

[sillyburt]

I'm getting ready to make my first batch with Brewer's best's Weizenbier kit but am worried I don't have a big enough fermenter

I'm using a 6 gallon bucket that used to have juice in it for making wine. I don't know if the entire container is more than 6 gallons or if there's some head room when they fill them with 6 gallons of juice

-will this be large enough to use with an airlock or should I try to put some type of blowof on it?

kit includes
2 cans of Munton's Wheat LME
'Munich' brewing yeast
Mt Hood bittering hops alpha acid 5.2%
Mt Hood aroma hops alpha acid 5.2%
and of course sugar

I just don't want to find my ceiling plastered with foam (kraeusen right?)
and it sounds like some of the wheat beers have a tendancy to be...turbulent during fermintation

 

[sgrcltpunk]

the brewers best kits are only for 5 gallons if you make 6 youll have very watered down beer just follow the instructions they should tell you that i did 2.5 gallons in the boil then put that on top of almost 3 gallons when i put it in the fermenter ... you have to assume .3 or .4 gallons for evaporation.

 

[Ness]

For the few seconds additional it will take to set up a blowoff I would.

 

[sillyburt]

I only plan on making a 5 gallon batch.

I guess my questions are
-does anyone know how large the 6 gallon juice buckets are? I mean are they 6 gallons to the top? I guess I could always measure out 6 gallons and pour it in?

-In other people's experiences has wheat beers had a lot of kraeusen to the amount that a 6 gallon (or maybe even a 6.5 gallon) fermenter was not large enough to contain the foam

 

[Millatime417]

use a blowoff, i made that same kit in a 6.5 gallon ale pail and had krausen in the airlock the next day.

 

[sudbuster]

OP, did you read this? Good advice....

For the few seconds additional it will take to set up a blowoff I would.