I just recently got back into brewing after a 4 year lapse. Today I was about to rack my second batch, a pale ale that I was dry hopping and wanted to give cold crashing a try for the first time to settle the hop pellets.
The cold crash definitely helped settle the hop pellets, but today I learned that doing this creates low pressure in the carboy resulting in my Starsan solution being sucked through my blow off tube, and now I have a nice inch layer of Starsan on top of my beer. I tried to siphon it off and anything that could go wrong went wrong. To make a long story short, I lost my cool and started dumping and even half way through dumping, threw my carboy off the deck into some bushes. I haven’t lost my cool like that in a while and now I’m super bummed out.
Next time I cold crash, how do I prevent this?
The cold crash definitely helped settle the hop pellets, but today I learned that doing this creates low pressure in the carboy resulting in my Starsan solution being sucked through my blow off tube, and now I have a nice inch layer of Starsan on top of my beer. I tried to siphon it off and anything that could go wrong went wrong. To make a long story short, I lost my cool and started dumping and even half way through dumping, threw my carboy off the deck into some bushes. I haven’t lost my cool like that in a while and now I’m super bummed out.
Next time I cold crash, how do I prevent this?