CaliBrewnia
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This is probably a stupid question but my 5gal brew bubbled up out of the airlock leaving a nice beer smell in my closet for me this morning. Nothing bad, I had the carboy on a cookie sheet. I cleaned it all up and resanitized my airlock and hooked up a blow off tube off the airlock into a clean cup of sanitizer.
Question: how in the eff do you really clean the gunk outta the center tube on the airlock or do you lot just toss the little guys? The foam just bubbled up through the tubing. So does everyone just buy 5-10 bucks of tubing and airlock every brew? Because I don't get how to clean the krausen/ trub out of the airlock and such. I had no new airlock and used some paper towel and a chopstick and sanitized but long term... is it standard to replace all that?
Question: how in the eff do you really clean the gunk outta the center tube on the airlock or do you lot just toss the little guys? The foam just bubbled up through the tubing. So does everyone just buy 5-10 bucks of tubing and airlock every brew? Because I don't get how to clean the krausen/ trub out of the airlock and such. I had no new airlock and used some paper towel and a chopstick and sanitized but long term... is it standard to replace all that?