benoj
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Hi all,
I have a nice NEIPA currently fermenting.
I did my last brew in a plastic fermentation bucket, and I must have had some leakage somewhere as I had no airlock activity.
This time I wanted to avoid the paranioa, so I purchased 3 * 5L glass carboy/demijohn. My fermentation is going very well to say the least. It started with an OG of 1.080 and I included my yeast starter made with white labs california ale yeast. Fermentation kicked off within a couple of hours and I had a decent amount of activity.
This morning I found a lot of overflow from my airlocks. I cleaned the outside and topped up the airlock with cheap gin (used the last of my sanitiser in the brew cleanup). I decided to replace the airlock b/c there was a lot of crap in it. So i cleaned the new airloocks with boiling water and then with gin. But after half an hour or so I can see yet more overflow happening and crud in the airlock.
I'm worried about infection happening - what can I do? Is it safe to leave the overflow just there? Or will this consume all my gin for the next 48 hours or so?
I don't have the equipment currently to make a blow-out tube for the three carboys
Thanks,
Ben
I have a nice NEIPA currently fermenting.
I did my last brew in a plastic fermentation bucket, and I must have had some leakage somewhere as I had no airlock activity.
This time I wanted to avoid the paranioa, so I purchased 3 * 5L glass carboy/demijohn. My fermentation is going very well to say the least. It started with an OG of 1.080 and I included my yeast starter made with white labs california ale yeast. Fermentation kicked off within a couple of hours and I had a decent amount of activity.
This morning I found a lot of overflow from my airlocks. I cleaned the outside and topped up the airlock with cheap gin (used the last of my sanitiser in the brew cleanup). I decided to replace the airlock b/c there was a lot of crap in it. So i cleaned the new airloocks with boiling water and then with gin. But after half an hour or so I can see yet more overflow happening and crud in the airlock.
I'm worried about infection happening - what can I do? Is it safe to leave the overflow just there? Or will this consume all my gin for the next 48 hours or so?
I don't have the equipment currently to make a blow-out tube for the three carboys
Thanks,
Ben