Hi, everyone.
A weird thing happened while I was bottling the last batch of my double IPA today. I don't rack to secondary (tried it, made no perceptible difference, didn't adopt it). Was racking from the fermentor into a bottling bucket, and when I was about 2/3 through, a crazy amount of bubbles went up from the bottom of the bucket, breaking up the yeast cake and hop trub on top of it. The piece of sanitized pantyhose I use for filtering spared me the worst of it, but I still ended up with lots of extra yeast and some fine hop powder in the bottling bucket.
Any ideas on what might have caused it? Any ideas on how to prevent it from happening in the future? I'm absolutely sure I haven't touched the surface of the cake (the racking cane never even went close to it before it blew up). It looked like the gas was trapped somewhere in the cake, or like a lot of CO2 somehow decided to come out of solution at once.
A weird thing happened while I was bottling the last batch of my double IPA today. I don't rack to secondary (tried it, made no perceptible difference, didn't adopt it). Was racking from the fermentor into a bottling bucket, and when I was about 2/3 through, a crazy amount of bubbles went up from the bottom of the bucket, breaking up the yeast cake and hop trub on top of it. The piece of sanitized pantyhose I use for filtering spared me the worst of it, but I still ended up with lots of extra yeast and some fine hop powder in the bottling bucket.
Any ideas on what might have caused it? Any ideas on how to prevent it from happening in the future? I'm absolutely sure I haven't touched the surface of the cake (the racking cane never even went close to it before it blew up). It looked like the gas was trapped somewhere in the cake, or like a lot of CO2 somehow decided to come out of solution at once.