BadNewsBrewery
Well-Known Member
I've been brewing for a while now, and last month made up 10gal of a Belgian Wit. Everything was going well, using 6.5gal glass carboys with blow-off tubes into a 2000ml beaker with some idophor and water. Got some krausen / yeast blow off, nothing major.
Decided to cold-crash it some before racking to keg as it was a fairly floculent yeast strain. Apparently I crashed too quickly, because when I opened up the fermentation chamber yesterday I found the beaker almost completley empty. Best guess - the temperature change sucked a few hundred ml of idophor, water, and yeast blow-off into each of the carboys.
I'm going to run with it and see how they turn out, but I'm pretty sure I just killed 10 gallons of beer from a boneheaded disregard for the laws of physics.
-Kevin
Decided to cold-crash it some before racking to keg as it was a fairly floculent yeast strain. Apparently I crashed too quickly, because when I opened up the fermentation chamber yesterday I found the beaker almost completley empty. Best guess - the temperature change sucked a few hundred ml of idophor, water, and yeast blow-off into each of the carboys.
I'm going to run with it and see how they turn out, but I'm pretty sure I just killed 10 gallons of beer from a boneheaded disregard for the laws of physics.
-Kevin