Hey everyone,
Semi-noob here with >50 brews under my belt. I only ferment in buckets and always use a blow off tube through active fermentation. This last batch I brewed with my son in law was a Porter, 1.073, Windsor/Danstar yeast which we hydrated in warm water.
Long story short, we lost over 1 gal of beer during active fermentation/high krausen. Yes we had tons of blow off like always however I have never lost that much actual beer before. The bung was well above the wort level so it did not direct syphon. Every time I would check in on it, the level was down even further. At one point we changed out the 5/16 blow off tubing for 3/8 tubing just to ensure we didn't plug it up and very little krausen came out during the switch.
Any thoughts as to why the loss?
Toy4Rick
Semi-noob here with >50 brews under my belt. I only ferment in buckets and always use a blow off tube through active fermentation. This last batch I brewed with my son in law was a Porter, 1.073, Windsor/Danstar yeast which we hydrated in warm water.
Long story short, we lost over 1 gal of beer during active fermentation/high krausen. Yes we had tons of blow off like always however I have never lost that much actual beer before. The bung was well above the wort level so it did not direct syphon. Every time I would check in on it, the level was down even further. At one point we changed out the 5/16 blow off tubing for 3/8 tubing just to ensure we didn't plug it up and very little krausen came out during the switch.
Any thoughts as to why the loss?
Toy4Rick