Airlocks 101
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- čas přidán 3. 10. 2009
- This video is about home brewing, airlocks and some of the issues that can come up due to airlock failure or a fermenter that doesn't have a good air tight seal. It might look like a failed batch, but this video will show that it might just be an airlock issue.
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Hello again, I never thought I would get a response, much less one so quickly. Thank you very much. Now I know, and won't waste my time and money on something that would have been doomed from the start. Thanks.
Thanks for all the great, no-nonsense brewing videos, Craig!
Thank you my friend. Your passion for beer shines through, and your no-nonsense advice is priceless.
Really appreciate your generosity in producing these video tutorials, Craig. You don't rush through, you cover all points systematically and with your 'students' in mind, and you are very natural. I haven't found a better face-to-face teacher of the brewer's arts anywhere. Long life and long may your brews bubble!
Once again, another informative video! All of your videos give great instructions as well as little tips/reasons as to why something happens/needs to be done. Just made my first batch with the Northern Brewer Deluxe Kit and can't wait to TASTE how everything came out. Cheers!
Thanks man, your home brewing series is great, it has helped me out to start brewing by my own...
Great video! I love your channel! I am beginner from Ireland, just brewing my first beer! Got very good knowledge from your videos. Keep going! Well done!
Dear Brewing Wizard,
Your videos provide no end of help.
Thank you muchly.
You do a great job with your videos. Very clear and thorough explanations. So useful.
Just bought my first kit today from Brewdemon. I've saw many of your videos, and all of them are really helpful. I will drink my first bottle of beer and make a distance cheers for you. Thank you Craig!
This is a great video, I’m new to wine making and this is the most informative video on airlocks. Thank you
Craig,
Your vids are really great! I'm a total newb and you explain things in simple terms that even I can understand...thanks!
I have watched many of your videos and just want to say thank you. I was a novice beer maker until two days ago when I had my beer bubbling madly away. I did as you advised and did change the air lock to the tube and water method. It works great, and yes hearing the bubbles is of great satisfaction to me. Your videos are appreciated for new people like myself. P.S im trying the Coopers Stout.
Totally solved my problem. I'm a noob and didn't know what was up with my airlock. I took a Hydro reading this morning, so I new fermentation was happening (initial hydro was a 38, this morning it was 23), but the air lock wasn't bubbling. I carefully shoved the air lock to seal with the lid, and then tested it as you did the first one you showed. Now I have a good lock, and it's bubbling away. What a great channel for first time brewers. CHEERS!
Thanks a Lot. I brewed my first beer last this weekend and ended up with some problems with the airlock. This video was very helpfull. Not easy to find good info about airlocks.
Great video. My airlock doesnt seem to be bubbling. You've put my mind at ease.
thanks a lot your such a big help first time making a 6 gal batch of mead and now i found out that the air was leaking because of the airlock glad to have found your Chanel on CZcams thanks for all your help
Great video! I was very curious about my first brew. This helped me be at ease. And the blow off tube demonstration was helpful as well.
Dude your videos are so informative and mellow. Thank you for this great learning resource!
Wow your videos on home brewing are my favorites. They are so incredibly informative especially about small details which matter so much. Thank you very much. Keep posting please because they are so helpful for beginners and we learn a lot. They are so simple too that even a person with absolutely no experience in brewing can understand and practice. Well done. Great job
Thanks for all your good information about airlocks. I am starting to learn wine making. Thanks again. Lazaro, this was a good tutorial
Thank you! Brewing my first beer and knew that an airlock was required but the books and recipe I had said nothing about what to actually do with it!
You rock Craig, very informitive and pro been into it now a year and alot of the inspiration came from veiwing your vids, just started a channel hope one day it can somewhat resemble yours in class, keep up the gd work!
You videos are very, very, very, very helpful . . . for the Newbiebrewer....
Thanks for sharing you experience.
Hi Craig, I am a new brewer. I was making my first beer. It may have been a little more than I was prepared. I finished the wort and put it in the fermenter. It was a little warmer than the recipe called for. I pitched the yeast. I put the lid on and fixed the airlock on the lid. A couple of days later there were no buddies. Nothing the next day. Oh my god I killed the yeast. I was going the throw it out. That evening I came across your airlock video. What a relief the beer may still be ok. Over a few days I saw the ring forming. I then knew thanks to you the beer was ok. Thank you Craig for saving my first brew. It is now in bottles and tastes great.
Thanks,Terry
Ps love your videos please don”t stop.
Thanks for the information Craig, very helpful. I was concerned that my airlock was not bubbling, so I watched this video and subsequently discovered I had used a fermenting bucket lid from another bucket that did not provide a tight seal. Nett result, it has begun bubbling.
You're a great teacher.
Hope you have more videos like this on how to make a step by step NEIPA.
Your videos are great. Very informative. Thanks
Thank you Craig for that very valuable information. You answered all my questions on this topic,cheers!
Man I just started this up as a hobby and in none of the tutorials I've read have ever said "put water in the airlock. I got really scared my new (mead) brew of two days was going to get infected. You gave me a little peace of mind when you said that the CO2 in the first few days would likely keep anything out of my brew regardless. Just topped up the water now :) Thank you very much for your video.
i'm so sorry about your home decor in 2009 but the videos are informative and interesting, thanks for the how-to's
4th view, 1st comment.
Thanks for all the videos Craig. I've started my first brew today. Your videos have been a lot of help.
Thanks again.
on my 3rd batch of brew,woke up this morning lot's of activity in the air lock,blowing bubbles out the top..no brew just the sanitizer..thought,better check out see what to do,your vid was the first one that popped up on google search..great vid..i'll be setting up a blow-off tube into a jug just to play it safe..thank's..cheers
THANK YOU GRAIG!!!! Im about to begin brewing your vids are so helpful
Thank you Craig for the information. I am looking forward to brewing my first batch.
Thank you for such a great video, perfectly explained all the questions I had about airlocks
Nice. All the info on airlocks. Thanks Craig.
Glad I came across this video, this was very informative and helpful 🎉🍻 Cheers
Great videos thanks. Just starting out and your info is really helpful.
that was a really good tip it just save my brew i was tired of being cleaning my bucket thanks a lot
What a great video! Thank you for such a wonderful explanation.
Hey Craig, Thank You very much. Very informative.
you are doing a service to mankind sir. thank you for your help. excellent job, and keep up the good work! :)
good vid. good info. thank you. just started my first brew tonight(inmate wine) looking forward to hear the bubbles!
Thanks so much for posting...You saved me from throwing out a good batch of vino...that didn't appear to be bubbling at the airlock.
Excellent video with tons of useful info, thanks!
When I brew my batches, I add a very small pinch of salt to the airlock (after it is installed and filled with water) in order to keep the water clear and bacteria-free for longer -- kind of like a salt system swimming pool. I find that salt can do no harm even if it is accidentally sucked into the fermenter and it won't evaporate like other sanitizing solutions might (alcohol, etc). That, plus it's cheap and always available/plentiful! ; )
good practical advice here and there, as always. useful vid.
Another great video on brewing again craig. Well done. There is another air lock technique some people use known as the cling wrap airlock. I kid you not! Basically you stretch cling wrap over the top of your fermenter and secure it with a rubber band or the 'o' ring seal of your fermenter if it has one. The just put a tiny pin prick in the middle. This works well, and allows you to see inside quite easily. Also when fermentation is happening, the plastic bulges up. When its down it finished! :)
Great video Craig!
Thanks for the great video - turns out a used fermenter I bought is exactly as you depicted: it has a slow leak; just enough so the airlock wasn't bubbling. Like you say, I'll bottle as soon as the SG is stable.
Jim
I think Vodka in the air lock is genius and I always do that. Always means twice, but I'm going to brew again next week and that will make three times. It worked fantastic the first time. I think it will be good this time too. Hell, it doesn't matter, I'll drink it anyway because I trust myself and you, Craig.
Thank you so much man, I took care of it first thing this morning.
Craig, great videos. In regards to the airlock on the Coopers fermenter. I have found that when the airlock slows down or quits early in the fermentation process, that re-tightening the lid will usually take care of the problem. It seems that the seal compresses with time and partially looses it's seal. I have re-tightened twice and the rate of bubbles has increased each time. This is my first batch as time goes by the seal may stabilize, otherwise I may consider a O-Ring of proper dimension.
This is great information thank you!!
Mr Craig I think I've watch nearly all your videos, you have been so helpful. Many many thnaks, have a beer on me.
Thank you!!! Just what I needed!!
Very nice channel! Just getting started on brewing...
I like this guy and his attitude...he does really enjoy brewery and beer drinking :)
Thank you for posting this! Super helpful
According to Home Depot personel the buckets you're talking about are food grade. I began using one for my primary a month ago. Just have to drill a hole in the lid. Since you have to fill it almost near the top to get a full 5 gallons in it, it wants to flood out the air lock a lot if you have a very aggressive fermentation so for the first few days of fermentation I use a blow-off tube set up, as Craig demonstrates toward the end of his video above.
Great video, thumbs up!
This video is so helpful! Thanks so much!! I'm just starting off homebrewing and need some help with the basics :)
Love it Craig.
Thank you so much! Great n informative video
Hey thanks for posting these videos on brewing
im running 7 fermenters distilling about 8litres 40% a day without these videos id be stuck lol
This video is so helpful! Thanks so much!!
Thanks you for the elaborate explantion
Thanks, just what I needed with the tube and jar :)
lots of good tips here thanks!
Super helpful! Thank you
hey i cant thank you enough for the info i am new at this and starte my first brew two days ago and my air lock was not doing any thing and i happened to stumble on your vid tryed the pressing on lid to see if seal was good and it was leaking aroud the rim even with it down tight could not get it to seal right at all so check this i took suran rap and rolled it out and rolled it up then poked it down all aroud the lid to make a gasket type thing put the lid back on and presto it worked. thanks
Great Information and Video Thx
All your videos have been great. Real help!! Thanks a lot : )
Thank you. Excellent !
I enjoyed your video very much and will use it thanks
Thank you for the lesson
Awesome vid! you saved my batch!
cheers for the help your videos are good.
Amazon wanted 20 dollars for a glass jug, but I saw some hawaiian punch at the store in gallon jugs for $2.19 so I got a couple of those and drank the punch. Then drilled 1 1/8 inch hole in the cap for the air lock. So far working good. I'm making muscadine wine for the first time.
Thanks Craig !
Thanks! Very helpful
Valuable knowledge.
great vid..cheers
@CraigTube SG down to 1011 today so certainly on the right track :) thanks, just checked out Airlocks 101, cool video as usual
oh.. very much informative.. thanks a lot
Great info, duct tape seals everything.
thanks great info
hey now, at 2:24 that was funny. anyway great topic. Your video is very helpful. Great tutorial.
thank u so much really helped me...👍👍👍👍
Some of the things and ways you said things, reminded me of the painter Bob Ross.
Thanks a lot mate! It might sound simple, but actually it happend to me, that the airlockwater got sucked in when I took a sample for hydrometer readings :D I guess shit happens also with easy things... I was there heard the sucking sound and was like "I should have thought about that". Lets hope the brew will still turn out fine, I bottled it today and the taste was normal :) I will new in a few weeks :D
2:20 🤣🤣🤣 You're the man... Also thank you for the amazing info....
hahaha I didn't even notice
great stuff
12:47, I'm with you Craig on removing the lid. Just leave it alone and let it get on with it and then bottle it when it's ready. I'll very slightly remove the lid during the cooler months of the year to dry hop but during the summer I will make a hop tea and add the tea and the hop bag to the FV before pitching the yeast and then the lid stays on for the duration. The Germans didn't ban brewing during the summer months for nothing so why take the chance during the summer months when wild yeast spores are so much more prevalent? The lid comes off when I've finished bottling and when I've bottled a third of a bottle of trub to re-pitch on my next brew every second brew. Only at that point does the lid come off the FV.
thank you this realty helped
WOW- look at your house- that's amazing!
He lives with his mom
Craigster!
I've had very successful brews of Coopers Lager and Real Ale. This week I tried Coopers Stout. After 5 days of fermeting still no airlock bloop-di-bloops!
Air-lock is good. My house is 20c. The beer is next to a window where the temp is 19C. I put a thermal jacket on the barrel. There is plently of scum on top of the barrel so I guess it's ok. I'm out of homebrew and had to buy beeer from the store today! Darn it!
good to know thanks
@CraigTube
Hello Craig,
Firstly thanks a lot for the videos, they have been a "Godsend",
I maybe wrong but i think cadmio meant 30 litres, lol,
i wouldn't fancy trying to bottle 300 litres, i'd be here a month of sundays doing that amount !
@CraigTube Midwest Supplies is a great source for rubber stoppers and other brewing equipment;