I put up a new beer yesterday to ferment using my revised Big Hose airlock.
There it is, all cozy in its blankies.
Unfortunately, a day later there are still no happy bubbles.
Nuthin’. Nada. Zip. Nichts. It is just sitting there.
However, once again the room smells like beer, and if we peek under the covers we find…..
Yikes! This time, it is 80 degrees in there! Something is foaming in that bucket, but the CO2 is going somewhere else. When I did this with that little hose in it, the bucket very nearly burst. Now, I can’t get a peep out of it. I wonder where all that gas is going?
(No, not into this blog)
Well as long as the beer turns out OK, I will let it go for now and think about it over the Summer. I won’t be brewing again until next Fall. Next week I will rack it off into the secondary.
Stay tuned.
Edit:
Late breaking news. I shined a flashlight down into the hole that the Big Hose goes into, and I could see bubbles in the beer. So there are bubbles, just not on the outside of the bucket.
Yay.
I wonder where all that gas is going.