So I came home yesterday and checked out the porter I have fermenting next to a batch of Apfelwein in a chest freezer. Good thing I always use a blow off tube because this baby filled up an entire growler and kept going all over the bottom of the freezer.
But that's not the whoa part.
That came about when I bent over the freezer to clean up the mess and took a breath of what I expected to be air but apparently was nothing but CO2 from 2 actively fermenting carboys. I almost wasn't able to get back up out of the freezer.
Lesson learned: Hold your breath when bending over into an airtight space in which alcohol has been fermenting.
But that's not the whoa part.
That came about when I bent over the freezer to clean up the mess and took a breath of what I expected to be air but apparently was nothing but CO2 from 2 actively fermenting carboys. I almost wasn't able to get back up out of the freezer.
Lesson learned: Hold your breath when bending over into an airtight space in which alcohol has been fermenting.