You know you did it wrong when...

[Donoroto]

Wheat beer fermentations... AMIRITE?

This was at a previous house, previous fermenter... but this one was particularly messy. After this, I grabbed a brick and put on top of the lid. That didn't work either, it clogged the airlock just like you see here, blew the lid off anyway, brick just fell beside the bucket. Channeling my best inner Wile E. Coyote, I put a cinder block on top of the lid. Partial success ! The lid didn't blow off, but did pop loose on one side, oozing out yeast all over the kitchen floor. The beer did finish out and wasn't too shabby.


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Probably didn’t taste like brick at all.

 

[Josh Hughes]

When you connect your blow off to the liquid line on your fermenter. I went to check and see if the US-05 was starting to go to work and found this!
Thank goodness all the wort ended up in the veggie tray of the fridge. Only lost about 4-5 pints fortunately. This is after I switched the line and refilled the glass with starsan.
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That’s why I got a yellow for gas. I sent wort through a spunding valve once.

 

[Craigerrr]

That’s why I got a yellow for gas. I sent wort through a spunding valve once.

I normally have the liquid line on my left when I put it on after pitching