[COHO] Big brew progress

[GaryWirt]

Brett:

I also have been concerned about the gunk and crap coming out of some of the
airlocks. 

...so I have been secretly adding a teaspoon here and there of whisky to the
air locks as necessary to assure the seal. The brown stuff you see in the
photos in the airlocks is not wort coming out of the fermentors.  It's
either Seagram's 7 or Jack Daniels Black ...both of which I thought might be
more appropriate than vodka...assuming that somehow it would get into our
wort.

Due to the snow I am out of vodka until tomorrow morning.

Gary :)

-----Original Message-----
From: coho-bounces at lists.bendtel.net [mailto:coho-bounces at lists.bendtel.net]
On Behalf Of brett thomas
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:23 PM
To: coho at lists.bendtel.net
Subject: Re: [COHO] Big brew progress

Hey Gary - if you get a chance try and swap out, or clean out, those couple 
of airlocks that are all gunked up.  If possible throw some fresh sanitizer,

or Vodka, into the cleaned airlocks.  This will prevent any risk of 
infection (even though that risk is pretty slim).  Overall it looks really 
good, even if you do have your hands full with our "children."  Thanks for 
all that you're doing.

BT


>From: "GaryWirt" <garywirt at bendbroadband.com>
>Reply-To: Central Oregon Homebrewers <coho at lists.bendtel.net>
>To: "'Central Oregon Homebrewers'" <coho at lists.bendtel.net>
>Subject: [COHO] Big brew progress
>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:47:09 -0800
>
>All 10 fermentors are happily bubbling away as of 7:00pm this evening.  I'm
>excited to see that Jerry's is now doing its thing also.
>
>Meanwhile, I have been somewhat mystified as to why Bill Herrick's brew
>would blow out the top of the carboy and none of the others have done so.
>After watching the action today and contemplating the situation. I have
>found the problem...it is me.
>
>Bill asked me during our big brew session if I had a carboy that he could
>use.  I said "sure..I have one right here..fill it up".  I was busy 
>throwing
>out food, etc.,and we did not discuss the carboy.  This particular carboy I
>obtained (for free) in Hong Kong in 1974 on one of my frequent trips there.
>It may be somewhat of an antique by today's standards.  It holds exactly 5
>US gallons and is used for drinking water in Hong Kong.  One can (and
>should) use bottled water in Hong Kong and this "carboy" is the method 
>used.
>The lettering on the side of the carboy is Chinese...Mandarin and
>Cantonese..I'm not that fluent.
>
>If you look at the attached photos it is obvious that the size of my Hong
>Kong carboy...which Bill used ...is smaller than the others.  I think most
>others are 6 gallons...or perhaps more.  The top blew from Bill's Brew
>because of the small capacity of my HK carboy.  There was little room for
>expansion during fermentation...not Bill's fault...mine.  Sorry Bill.
>
>One of the Marlow carboys appears to be a 5 gallon container also (see
>photos attached) ...however it is vented via a blow off tube, is happy, and
>did not blow up.
>
>Lesson learned:  My 5 gallon Hong Kong carboy probably would have been fine
>with a blow off tube...had I realized that a small airlock doesn't work in
>all situations.
>
>Gary
>
>


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