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re: Homebrewing: In-Process Thread
Posted on 4/18/16 at 7:09 am to s14suspense
Posted on 4/18/16 at 7:09 am to s14suspense
So, i may or may not have an issue when i get home. Brewed up my pale ale yesterday, everything went according to plan. Well, as i'm inserting the stopper and am pushing in the air lock, the air lock snaps in half. Must have been pretty old. I tried taping it together with electrical tape but that didn't work. I ran out of spare air locks, so my only solution was to use a carboy cap attached to a blowoff tube.
This thing.
Well, i checked on it last night and i had krausen, but no bubbles in the sanitizer solution that the blowoff tube leads to. I checked again this morning, and got a fuller head of krausen, and still no bubbles, which leads me to believe that this cap isn't sealing all the way.
There's nothing i can really do about it until i get home and run to La Homebrew, but should i be concerned of any infection or oxidation coming in? I have a sour in the fermenter right next to it.
Science would leave me to believe that i should be good, as i have very active fermentation going on right now, and the CO2 produced from this should be more than enough to push out any Oxygen ingress. I also believe the carboy cap should do the job from keeping bugs out as long as it's for a short time.
Your thoughts? RDWHAHB???
This thing.
Well, i checked on it last night and i had krausen, but no bubbles in the sanitizer solution that the blowoff tube leads to. I checked again this morning, and got a fuller head of krausen, and still no bubbles, which leads me to believe that this cap isn't sealing all the way.
There's nothing i can really do about it until i get home and run to La Homebrew, but should i be concerned of any infection or oxidation coming in? I have a sour in the fermenter right next to it.
Science would leave me to believe that i should be good, as i have very active fermentation going on right now, and the CO2 produced from this should be more than enough to push out any Oxygen ingress. I also believe the carboy cap should do the job from keeping bugs out as long as it's for a short time.
Your thoughts? RDWHAHB???
This post was edited on 4/18/16 at 7:10 am
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Posted on 4/18/16 at 8:38 am to BugAC
quote:
Your thoughts? RDWHAHB???
This.
Posted on 4/18/16 at 9:15 am to BugAC
Hell a lot of people just stick aluminum foil over it.
Posted on 4/18/16 at 9:16 am to BugAC
quote:
Your thoughts? RDWHAHB???
always this
Posted on 4/18/16 at 2:55 pm to BugAC
It's a dumper, for sure.
Posted on 4/20/16 at 12:18 pm to BugAC
Hell half the time I just aluminum foil and a rubber band.
Posted on 4/20/16 at 7:25 pm to BeerMoney
Taste of our first IPL is pretty nice. Maybe switch to Pilsner malt next time to brighten it up but it's good.
This post was edited on 4/21/16 at 8:25 am
Posted on 4/22/16 at 9:11 am to BugAC
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I have a sour in the fermenter right next to it.
Now you have two sours, congrats!
Posted on 4/22/16 at 9:23 am to LSUBoo
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Now you have two sours, congrats!
you ain't right
Posted on 4/22/16 at 9:28 pm to AubieALUMdvm
quote:
How does gas escape?
The aluminum foil + rubber band isn't (typically) an air tight seal. It works great in a pinch and better than any other method I've seen with that finicky DuPont strain.
Today was a perfect day for brewing what will probably be my final brew as a BTR resident. Next month we pack up the family and head to Rive Ridge.
Any decent homebrew clubs in the NOLA area?
This post was edited on 4/22/16 at 9:29 pm
Posted on 4/22/16 at 11:50 pm to LSUGrad00
Aw shite I been wondering where you been at
This post was edited on 4/22/16 at 11:50 pm
Posted on 4/23/16 at 9:13 am to LSUGrad00
Crescent City meets out in JP. Good group of guys.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 10:05 am to AubieALUMdvm
It's not air tight. Keeps particles and bugs out is all. In the fermentation freezer I'd occasionally use no cover at all. Had a mayfly do a suicide nose dive in to a fermenter once which ended that practice. Beer came out fine though.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 3:11 pm to BeerMoney
Plenty of great European beers have been fermented open to the air... Did this thread get unstickied?
Posted on 4/24/16 at 3:50 pm to Canuck Tiger
It does appear so, along with like 4 other previous stickied threads
Posted on 4/25/16 at 3:50 am to Fratastic423
Oh good, that should solve all of TD's problems
Posted on 4/25/16 at 8:13 am to LoneStarTiger
Good to know they are on top of things around here.
I've used the foil topper method before successfully. It's not like bacteria and whatnot is sneaky when trying to get into a beer.
I've used the foil topper method before successfully. It's not like bacteria and whatnot is sneaky when trying to get into a beer.
Posted on 4/25/16 at 8:29 am to BeerMoney
quote:
It's not air tight. Keeps particles and bugs out is all. In the fermentation freezer I'd occasionally use no cover at all. Had a mayfly do a suicide nose dive in to a fermenter once which ended that practice. Beer came out fine though.
The one time I put the foil on the carboy loosely (and no rubber band) I had a determined fruit fly crawl between the foil and carboy and make it into my beer.
It did not end well.
Posted on 4/25/16 at 10:27 am to LSUGrad00
Is the Nottoway brewing competition going to be in the bayou circuit?
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