Trappist Mess

[j1gsaw]

Wyeast High grav, day 2... 1090 wort...

Bloody thing tries to eat me whenever i check on it.
Knew i should have used the 60L carboy <_<

Cleaned up the mess just before, paper towel in one hand, starsan spray in the other.
How many times will it do this anyone know? Does it have one big overload, then settle back or??
I just pulled the airlock, cleaned it, and mopped up the goo on the top, then gave everything a hit with starsan, Im guessing thats all i do?
This beer is the one destined for the belgian sugar feedings at day 8 with champagne yeast... lord help me.

Also, could i remove the airlock and just let it breathe through the grommit, (until the massive krausen dies down).
Cheers

 

[chappo1970]

Which yeast did you use Bart?

When I did my Trappist I gave up cleaning it up on day 2. I just let it make one big mess to clean up instead of 10 little ones. It shouldn't hurt your brew but with a chesty I would be putting some kind of catch tray/sourcer under that fermenter cause it will be a bugger to clean if it gets away from ya.

Can't wait to try this one Buddy Pal/Besty :icon_drool2:

 

[Maple]

Wyeast High grav, day 2... 1090 wort...

Bloody thing tries to eat me whenever i check on it.
Knew i should have used the 60L carboy <_<

Cleaned up the mess just before, paper towel in one hand, starsan spray in the other.
How many times will it do this anyone know? Does it have one big overload, then settle back or??
I just pulled the airlock, cleaned it, and mopped up the goo on the top, then gave everything a hit with starsan, Im guessing thats all i do?
This beer is the one destined for the belgian sugar feedings at day 8 with champagne yeast... lord help me.

Cheers

Perhaps a simple blow-off tube instead of the airlock and you'll have a much easier time of it. I've just used some tubing shoved into the grommet in the lid, other end in a 2L jug of water beside the fermenter. turns the water all yeasty, saves the mess, easy to tip and refresh.

 

[j1gsaw]

Which yeast did you use Bart?

When I did my Trappist I gave up cleaning it up on day 2. I just let it make one big mess to clean up instead of 10 little ones. It shouldn't hurt your brew but with a chesty I would be putting some kind of catch tray/sourcer under that fermenter cause it will be a bugger to clean if it gets away from ya.

Can't wait to try this one Buddy Pal/Besty :icon_drool2:

Hey chap.
wyeast 3787 in this brute.
I just checked it again and it had filled the bloody airlock already with mud, so i buggered it off and just stuck a bottle cap over the grommit, seems to be jumping about like a jelly bean.
However a blow off tube is sounding like a graaaand idea.

 

[MarkBastard]

bloody hell look at the colour of that, you could go and do some rock paintings with that stuff

 

[Gulpa]

I used this yeast for the first time two weeks ago for a Dubbel. Same issue, and mine was only 1.066. I switched to gladwrap but it still pushed out the sides and made. I waited over a week before adding the sugar just to be sure it wouldnt go everywhere.

Agree the blowoff tube is only way to go. Will use this next time.

cheers
Andrew.

 

[MarkBastard]

Could you do a double batch and have the blowoff from the first one going into the second one and supplying enough yeast for the second one to ferment? Sort of like an automatic version of top cropping? haha

 

[manticle]

I use this yeast a bit. She's wild. I've had the same issue with a few brews with too little headspace. She will eat through quite quickly - I resign mysef to wiping and sanitising a couple of days in a row. You could loosen the lid a touch and let some gas out then reseal and clean.

You add the sugar after high krausen (and from advice and experience I'd add a bit in every two days rather than all at once just for flavour's sake) so no need to worry about her getting that nuts again.

Same with 3068, London ale III, German 1007 and ringwood (but that was fermenting in a cube filled to the brim).

Blow off tube is probably the answer but I like to make things difficult for myself.

 

[bradsbrew]

I've used this one a few times and it makes a mess every time. Will have to disagree with manticle this time as I have added after high krausen in steps as a trippel and it made a mess with each addition. With the last brew I made with it , a trippel , after the last feed of sugar I thought it wont make a mess now and put a new peice of gladdy on with a new rubber band......next day the gladdy was floating on top of the krausen about an inch above the fermenter. I could not find the rubber band anywhere in the chesty. So I replaced the gladdy and band and it eventually settled down. The rubber band was found the day after I crash chilled and it floated to the top of the brew........good thing I starsan my rubberbands these days.

Cheers

 

[manticle]

Maybe I just had more headspace last time I did it. Krausen certainly reformed - it just didn't jump out of the fermenter and try and strangle my cats.

 

[Hasa]

If you were to use the cling wrap method, how would you go about having a blow of tube/valve or equivalent?

 

[bradsbrew]

If you were to use the cling wrap method, how would you go about having a blow of tube/valve or equivalent?

I used a 30L fermenter with a 21L wort so i thought the glad wrap would be fine but I was wrong. Blow off tube is the best bet with this type of yeast. First time I used it I was still using an airlock and it spat yeast on to the top of my old brew box, the top was about 30cms above the airlock. I love watching this yeast do its thing.

Cheers

 

[TidalPete]

If you were to use the cling wrap method, how would you go about having a blow of tube/valve or equivalent?

You don't.

Pick of my last fermentation with Ian Watson's kindly donated 3787. Apologies for the poor terrible pic.

T

 

[scoundrel]

cheers boys im just about to pitch a belgian double with 3787, seems a visit to the hardware shop is in order.