Yeast overflow

[Mall]

Hi all, is this a problem? It is a washed US05 and I made a starter with spare wort. Haven't had this aggressive ferment to date...

 

[manticle]

No problem.

Replace glad wrap, clean any outside spills and give a quick spray with sanitiser.

 

[menoetes]

That does seem pretty aggressive for us-05 but not completely unusual. You didn't leave a huge amount of free headspace but still... how high was your OG? Big beers (high Alcohol ones with high OGs) can produce some massive krausens, otherwise you might have pitched a very active starter with more cells in it than you realized and they've just gone on a feeding frenzy.

Hell, you might be the first to get try top-cropping some US-05

 

[Mall]

It was this beauty: http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/214805/citra-double-ipa-clone-kern-river-brewing so looks like the yeasties went on a feeding frenzy.

 

[Alex.Tas]

It was this beauty: http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/214805/citra-double-ipa-clone-kern-river-brewing so looks like the yeasties went on a feeding frenzy.

thats a lot of dry hops for a 23L recipe!

109g of citra dry hop plus 14g of amarillo dry hop.

That foam looks brilliant!

 

[Mall]

Yeah I may "review" the amount of dry hops. It tastes incredible out of the hydrometer and does not need much more...I will see how the flavour settles before any additions.

 

[TOF]

Hi Mall, i often have violent fermentations when using washed yeast so i just lower the temperature a degree or two for a few days until it settles down, works for me and its easy, Cheers, TOF.

 

[stevemc32]

Clean the fridge well too after the ferment is complete. I had some yeast get into the door seal and ended up having to remove the door to clean it out a few months later. A gas mask would have been handy that day, it really was not pleasant!

 

[slcmorro]

Hell, you might be the first to get try top-cropping some US-05

Nope - I've done it before successfully

 

[LiquidGold]

Clean the fridge well too after the ferment is complete. I had some yeast get into the door seal and ended up having to remove the door to clean it out a few months later. A gas mask would have been handy that day, it really was not pleasant!

I once neglected a pack of liquid yeast in the back of a fridge and somehow it got a small hole in it. The smell was a bit like that of a rotting corpse by the time I realised and cleaned up the mess. So putrid :icon_vomit:

 

[Dunkelbrau]

Don't lower the dryhop amount. That's about right for what I use in some hoppy beers. (5g/L) some I go up to 10g/L