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  • Oh no! Nicholas Cage's beer is freaking out!

  • I have 5 gallons formenting right now and it looked like the videos for the first two days with the foaming and that, but now it's subsized and there's little dots on top of the brew and it's producing rings around where the beer foam was. Is that normal or is there a bacterial infection of some kind

  • I have 5 gallons formenting right now and it looked like the videos for the first two days with the foaming and that, but now it's subsized and there's little dots on top of the brew and it's producing rings around where the beer foam was. Is that normal or is there a bacterial infection of some kind?

  • I have a 5 gallong batch brewing in a carboy right now, and it fermented and foamed up for like a day and then it settle and is producing rings around the top of the carboy. It makes me thing there's a bacterial infection. Is that the case or have you not experienced a bacterial infection in a homebrew?

  • I've yet to have that problem, but I haven't made any really high gravity beers so far (high gravity meads, for sure, but even then I haven't had an explosion ... thankfully).

  • Fast fermentation does NOT mean a "smoother beer". When fermentation is too hot / O2 rich / over-pitched the yeast creates much more byproduct like dms, diacytel etc... And doesn't have time to "clean up" after itself. If anything, you should pitch the right amount of yeast at the lower end of your fermentation spectrum and slowly let it raise to the top. This will ensure a good clean-up from the yeast.

  • You should really control your fermentation temps at all times. You've got a hot ferment going on right there which is why it exploded and hit the ceiling. Start controlling your temps and you'll see an improvement in your beer.

  • haha! i learned about the blow off method after my first 12% dipa exploded all over my laundry room. that freakin sucks!!!

  • around :42, dude that's not the roof.

    It's the CEILING.

  • was that a 6.5 gallon carboy or a 5?

  • Ha! Been there! I brew in Sanke kegs with the tops plasma-cut out. Faster the fermentation the cleaner the yeast profile. Only beers I want a slower fermentation are the heavy Belgians, to get that bubble gum profile.

  • use a primary next time, from experience the plastic lid will start bending outward and before there is enough pressure to blow the airlock off the lid it self will let some air out. also try to put the overflow whose near the water surface this way less pressure is required to push the water out the whose before the air comes out

  • What kind of yeast did you use? I get violent fermentations with WLP001.

  • Yea, it was 001. Never used it before. I made a huge starter a week before pitching though.

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