Near miss!!

[Nottsbeer]

Went to bottle my lastest brew today. Opened the fermentation fridge to fine this....see below! I noticed after a couple of days fermenting that it had been very lively and escaped out of the airlock. Must have then been distracted as I clearly forgot to deal with it! - so it was in that state for about 11 days! Dreading the state of the brew, I took a sample to taste... thankfully tastes good . Wonder in the gunk in the airlock stopped co2 escaping, or slowed the rate enough to keep things safe? Need to look into making a blow-off tube fir the next brew. Hopefully it will still taste good in a few weeks

 

[Empty bottle]

Did that happen because you have filled the bucket up too much and the bottom of the air valve has been sitting in the fluid ?

 

[Nottsbeer]

Did that happen because you have filled the bucket up too much and the bottom of the air valve has been sitting in the fluid ?

Hi, no there was a gap between the wort and airlock tube. I think about an inch....I had collected slightly more wort than normal on this brew. Just had a very lively fermentation and the only way out was through the airlock. Will make a blow-off tube for my next brew

 

[dad_of_jon]

I get that whenever I do a dark beer. My doppel dunkel weizenbock is going to need a blow off tube as well as a bigger label with a name like that.