philm63
Grandmaster Brewer
Got a call from my wife (I'm traveling currently) - my hefe blew its lid! The small plastic lid on top of the air-lock blew off and the darn thing foamed over. I do not own a blow-off tube!! (I'll have to fix that!)
While on the phone, I told her to grab the "kettle drain hose" from the brew-lab wall (where I hang my hoses to dry) and dry-fit it to the plastic tube that is integral to the inside of the air-lock (She did this on an extra air-lock - I have several, they're cheap!) to make sure it would fit - it did!
So... I had her open the ferm-fridge and sanitize everything, set a flask full of Star-San next to the carboy and put one end of the hose in it, and remove the small plastic "floater" from the inside of the airlock and place the hose on the plastic tube that is inside the air-lock (most of you will know what I mean) - this effectively created a blow-off tube from the lower half of the air-lock to a flask of sanitizer and yes, it just kept bubbling away! Catastrophe averted! (My wife ROCKS!)
While on the phone, I told her to grab the "kettle drain hose" from the brew-lab wall (where I hang my hoses to dry) and dry-fit it to the plastic tube that is integral to the inside of the air-lock (She did this on an extra air-lock - I have several, they're cheap!) to make sure it would fit - it did!
So... I had her open the ferm-fridge and sanitize everything, set a flask full of Star-San next to the carboy and put one end of the hose in it, and remove the small plastic "floater" from the inside of the airlock and place the hose on the plastic tube that is inside the air-lock (most of you will know what I mean) - this effectively created a blow-off tube from the lower half of the air-lock to a flask of sanitizer and yes, it just kept bubbling away! Catastrophe averted! (My wife ROCKS!)