A friend warned me to always use a blow off tube. I hadn't needed one, I didn't think, until today.
Sunday afternoon I brewed Midwest's Chocolate Covered BEAVR Nuts extract kit. This kit comes with alot of grains, I hadn't had to sparge grains before this one. Came out around 1.085 OG. Did full boil, starter on a stir plate, oxygenation with O2.
Woke up this morning (Tuesday), went down to check on activity. The airlock was brownish and foamed up, still bubbling. I changed the airlock out with a clean one, and went to work.
Got a call from the wife this afternoon, she heard a gunshot sound in the basement! The lid was on the floor, luckily the splatter mess wasn't too bad.
The lid was off a few hours - hopefully it doesn't get an infection. Anyone else had a problem like this and had an infection after a few hours? Had I known that my siphon tubing fit perfectly in that airlock hole, I would've setup the blow off this morning.
Sunday afternoon I brewed Midwest's Chocolate Covered BEAVR Nuts extract kit. This kit comes with alot of grains, I hadn't had to sparge grains before this one. Came out around 1.085 OG. Did full boil, starter on a stir plate, oxygenation with O2.
Woke up this morning (Tuesday), went down to check on activity. The airlock was brownish and foamed up, still bubbling. I changed the airlock out with a clean one, and went to work.
Got a call from the wife this afternoon, she heard a gunshot sound in the basement! The lid was on the floor, luckily the splatter mess wasn't too bad.
The lid was off a few hours - hopefully it doesn't get an infection. Anyone else had a problem like this and had an infection after a few hours? Had I known that my siphon tubing fit perfectly in that airlock hole, I would've setup the blow off this morning.