Saturday was brew day - everything went as planned, this time pitched a rehydrated Nottingham yeast, haven't used this before. I was slightly nervous as the biggest carboy I had available was a 6 gallon better bottle, and I filled that sucker up like 5 1/2 gallons, so not a lot of head space.
Saturday night there was activity, maybe 1/2" Krausen, head space diminishing.
Sunday morning I ran into the basement and saw that the bung & airlock had blown off, and there was active blow off, it must have just started.
I ran and got my 1"? tube I use for my 6 1/2 gallon carboy, but wasn't big enough for the better bottle, I think they use a #10 bung.
I rummaged through other tubing I had, and it did fit through the bung.
So I washed off the bung, and sprayed it all with star san I had in a spray bottle, put the other end into a bottle 3/4 full of star san, and put that in a bucket.
In the chaos of all of this, I didn't sanitize the inside of the tubing, just sprayed the outside.
I checked again this morning and it is bubbling like crazy still, should I be concerned?
When I normally put an airlock on after pitching - I never sanitize my airlock just the bung, haven't had a problem, maybe luck has been on my side.
What would you do?
Saturday night there was activity, maybe 1/2" Krausen, head space diminishing.
Sunday morning I ran into the basement and saw that the bung & airlock had blown off, and there was active blow off, it must have just started.
I ran and got my 1"? tube I use for my 6 1/2 gallon carboy, but wasn't big enough for the better bottle, I think they use a #10 bung.
I rummaged through other tubing I had, and it did fit through the bung.
So I washed off the bung, and sprayed it all with star san I had in a spray bottle, put the other end into a bottle 3/4 full of star san, and put that in a bucket.
In the chaos of all of this, I didn't sanitize the inside of the tubing, just sprayed the outside.
I checked again this morning and it is bubbling like crazy still, should I be concerned?
When I normally put an airlock on after pitching - I never sanitize my airlock just the bung, haven't had a problem, maybe luck has been on my side.
What would you do?