Enough with the attempts at humor. I am back to beer. Yesterday I put up 5 gallons of my Amber Ale to ferment, but this time I did it differently. This time I am trying out the primary fermentation in The Bucket.
That is not just any bucket, that is a special Brewing Bucket from the beer store. It holds 7.8 gallons instead of the piddly 6 gallons that the carboy holds. It still has a teeny tiny little blowby hose, but this time there is way more headspace over the beer to keep the beer snot inside of the bucket. My brew friends told me that this will fix my problem with the beer snot getting out of the fermenter.
And to be safe, this time I went directly to the bolt to keep the end of the hose in control.
It’s all good.
OK. That was the theory. Here is the reality.
One day later.
The hose and the bucket are full of beer snot again.
It isn’t as bad as last time, but it is still pretty nasty.
The pressure in this thing is intense. I had to tape the hose onto the top because there is nothing there to tie it to.
Looks like there is some leakage anyway. And now that I look at it, check out that bulge!
Yikes! I hope this one doesn’t blow out like the bung did. That could make a mess.
Isn’t this exciting?