bizarre yeast "geysers"
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:43 pm
by thedrake
Can anyone explain what I saw happening in my fermenter? After the yeast had started to floc and settle out, I noticed these "geysers" shooting off the yeast cake on the bottom of the fermenter. Very cool and mysterious. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKHiFfUoew
Re: bizarre yeast "geysers"
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:35 am
by ApresSkiBrewer
That is just CO2 evolving from the yeast cake, and it pulls up some of the yeast as it rises to the surface. Depending on the flocculation/sedimentation properties of different yeasts, you will/will not see this sometimes.
It is cool lookin'.
Re: bizarre yeast "geysers"
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:56 am
by Sent From My iPhone
Kind of Lava lampish. Perfectly normal.
Re: bizarre yeast "geysers"
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:09 am
by mordantly
weapons of mass destruction have been launched in ager towards a neighboring cake.