Home brew beer question.....HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Home brew beer question.....HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Postby Jshakour » Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:09 am

I made a batch of Holiday ale (better brew kit). I am using a 7.5 primary fermenter, I made the batch lastnight. It started bubbling in the air lock around 11:30 am EST I checked the air lock again around 5:30 pm EST all was good.

HOWEVER......I checked it at 11:00pm EST and the batch was foaming out of the air lock!!!!!!! I took the lid off the bucket to ease the pressure, I looked inside and there was foam all the way up to the lid and the air lock was clogged with green muck, my guess it was hops.


Did I do something wrong??????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Postby Wild » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:49 am

Think "Blowoff Tube".
I've used my broken plastic racking cane elbow and hose to bleed blowoff into a bucket of water. If you didn't open the bucket, you could have had an explosion that would have blown the lid off and left a nice mess in the surrounding area.

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Postby Jshakour » Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:26 pm

so did I do something wrong?
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Postby shineman » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:14 pm

sounds like you did good, sometimes the yeast, temps, and gravity are just right and they just take off. like wild said, rig up a blow_off tube to take care of the vigorous ferment that you can get, and it will save you a lot of cleanup.
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Postby Jshakour » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:19 pm

so right now i am at work and i vented the lid a crack. Do you think it will be ok until about 5 pm?
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Postby shineman » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:38 pm

you got enough pressure inside to keep out all the bad stuff, so i wouldn't worry too much. when you get back to it, just clean up good and fix up some kind of air lock and you'll be ok.
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Postby Jshakour » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:27 pm

I am going to setup a blow off tube until overnight and see what happens i'll keep you guys posted.


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Postby Jshakour » Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:27 pm

I cleaned up the bucket and floor, again, took a peak inside the bucket and the foam was almost gone. So I used the air lock again and bubbling started almost immediately. It was still going strong as of this morning!



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Postby Wild » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:39 am

Sounds like you're on your way to a good beer!

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