Yesterday, I started the fermentation of my grapefruit IPA. I previously edited my heat control code to turn the heater off during the boiling stage until the temperature dropped too far, which I think caused less water to boil off during the process. This meant I had more wort to fill my 1 gallon carboy compared to with previous batches. Yay, more beer - but today I noticed that the fermenter had overflowed into the airlock:
I cleaned out the airlock, refilled it with water, and put it back on the bottle, but a couple hours later it had overflowed again. So, I rigged up a blow off tube:
This functions the same way as the airlock, but leaves more room in the tubing for foam to escape without clogging.
You can see the bubbles coming out as the beer continues to ferment.
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