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By Eric Kahler on Jan 8th 2007, 11:46 pm
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Made a barley wine yesterday for next Christmas, I made the batch outside as the weather was pretty nice for this time of the year. I racked my hop devil clone kit to secondary and put the barley wine on top of the US56 yeast cake. I had active fermentation in about 2 hrs which surprised me as that is the fastest start Ive ever had. When I got up this morning the top of the bucket (7.5gal.) was bulged and the gas would come out in violent bursts into the large jar full of water thru the blowoff tube. The jar was pretty muddy with krausen and the blow off tube was full of it. I decided to just keep and I eye on it today and see what happens rather than to try to remove and clean the blow off tube to make sure it was clear for the gas to release. Apparently the krausen must have subsided some as the tube is just bubbling gas and not krausen now...WHEWWW. It is still hammering away a very steady stream of O2 .A gamble that at least this time has worked. Pitching on the yeast cake is the bomb as others have said. My blowoff tube fit right into the grommet for my airlock. I have a feeling that this is not adequet and I need a bigger tube and hole in the top of the pail.Anyway live and learn at least it didnt blow and fermentation is going along nicely.
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