Fermentation in blowoff bottle!

[climateboy]

Hey all,

So, this is a new one on me. I'm fermenting a Belgian tripel, with a blowoff tube running into a gallon jug about three-quarters full of water. Fermentation was so vigorous that it filled the jug with gunk.

Then the blowoff jug started fermenting. It's at high krausen now. I guess that's one way to top crop Belgian yeast!

Anyone else have this happen to them?

 

[Bensiff]

Yup, if your carboy is too full you will take wort up the blow off with the yeast and then it will ferment in the blow off jar.

 

[jester5120]

yeah i've seen it on some crazy fermentations. there's people on here that have made a kind of homebrew version of a burton union system so they could top crop that way.

 

[hunter_le five]

Maybe your blowoff needs a blowoff?

 

[climateboy]

Maybe your blowoff needs a blowoff?

Ha, actually, yes it does. There was pasty blowoff all over the bottom of the fermentation chamber...from the blowoff bottle.

 

[climateboy]

yeah i've seen it on some crazy fermentations. there's people on here that have made a kind of homebrew version of a burton union system so they could top crop that way.

Huh, I had never heard of this before. What a great idea--I will have to try it just for the yeast harvesting convenience alone.


http://byo.com/stories/issue/item/351-build-a-burton-union-system-projects

 

[jester5120]

yep that's the article. if i were cooler i would have thought to put the link up for you in my first post but unfortunately i suck

 

[climateboy]

yep that's the article. if i were cooler i would have thought to put the link up for you in my first post but unfortunately i suck

That's all right, Jester, you contribute in other ways. That plating yeast article was excellent.