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Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:30 pm
by rtalbigr
Had a hell of a mess today. I'm fermenting an all barley, which tend to be a little aggressive but this one is hell bent. I had left the top off for a while, and when I check on it it was spilling over the sides and I had a rather significant puddle on the floor. So, instead of the normal bubble cap I put in my overflow tube. Well, I guess it got clogged and blew its top.
- 5 feet to the ceiling.
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Damn what a mess!
Big R
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:48 pm
by whiskeytripping
I bet the wife was happy
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:56 pm
by pfshine
holy pressure in that thing. How much does that fermenter hold?
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:21 pm
by bentstick
Damn holly mess,I'd be banned for awhile( actually depended on what it tasted like)!
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:26 pm
by Prairiepiss
HaHa he don't have a wife to piss off. And the fermenter is 15 gallon. How big a batch was it BigR?
What a mess. Cleaning that ceiling will be a pita.
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:32 pm
by bentstick
A coat or two of killz, and ceiling paint may work!
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:20 pm
by Bushman
Wow I think my wife would move me to the shed if that happened in our downstairs bathroom.
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:26 pm
by BareKnuckles
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:39 pm
by MontanaMule
DANG! I often wonder wow the misses would react when this happens to me.
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:02 am
by rtalbigr
Prairiepiss wrote:HaHa he don't have a wife to piss off. And the fermenter is 15 gallon. How big a batch was it BigR?
What a mess. Cleaning that ceiling will be a pita.
I had about 14 gal in there PP.
My ex does come over from time to time. She just shakes her head. I know it kills her not to be able to say somethin'.
Big R
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:57 am
by OlympicMtDoo
Nice Big R, good to know I'm not the only one that screws up from time to time.
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:26 am
by skydivemd
OlympicMtDoo wrote:... good to know I'm not the only one that screws up from time to time.
You certainly don't have a corner on that market! I think for most of us, its not a matter of
if, but rather
when!
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:46 am
by rtalbigr
OlympicMtDoo wrote:Nice Big R, good to know I'm not the only one that screws up from time to time.
It's not the screwin' up I mind, it's the da** mess I'm always cleanin' up afterwords.
Big R
Re: Fermenter blew it's top
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:15 am
by rad14701
Two weeks ago today I almost gutted my bathroom... I had a lapse of judgment when preparing some Concord grape wine and grabbed a carbouy that didn't allow for enough head space... The airlock got plugged with grape must and rather than having an explosion in the fermenting closet I opted for releasing the pressure in the bathroom... Being slow and cautious helped mitigate some of the potential mess but it couldn't be avoided altogether... I purposely took the brunt of what would otherwise have gutted the bathroom far worse than it did... I looked like I was the recipient of a projectile vomit-fest... And I had things covered with a towel and let most of the pressure bleed off before fully removing my homemade airlock...
As a side note, the wine is fermented to dry as of today and ready to be racked into a secondary for further clearing before bottling...
That's awesome Big R 
