Sounds like something one would do on a bet. Like drinking the scuzz from a protein skimmer.
I always use a new bottle, because I drink too much soda.
sugar and yeast mix....smell?
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I always use a new bottle, because I drink too much soda.
I was not planning on drinking it. lol. SO it shouldnt make like a room smell or anyhting. Just when you change it.
Really, have you ever tasted it? It smells nasty, but the bubble counter water smells like setlzer water maybe with a tiny whiff of alcohol, maybe. I didn't have the guts to taste it.
Someone online was discussing whether the alcohol could travel with the CO2, into the tank or into the bubble counter fluid. Being water soluble, I doubt it would travel in the gas. But, I don't know. I sure wouldn't ever drink that nasty brew.
FWIW, my son was trying to brew his own soda pop, using blackberry juice and yeast. The info he had suggested that the mix in a sealed 2 liter bottle would get carbonated long before it fermented, fermentaion would take about a month. He tried it, but he didn't use much sugar. It carbonated well in a few days -- I made him quit as I was so worried that the bottle would explode and, even inside the plastic bag, be powerful enough to mess up the kitchen. He tasted his soda and it was not good, you could taste the yeast. It was interesting nontheless.
the swill in the bottom of the bottle is pretty foul smelling, but harmless unless there is unfermeted yeast which can continue to ferment (much faster in your belly than in the bottle) and cause excessive intestinal distress.
If you can smell the stuff you either have a leak at the bottle, or the flow rate is too fast in the water column and the smell is escaping through the airline in the tank. I do not use a bubble counter so I go directly from the bottles into the tank and when the CO2 is too fast to disslove, some of the faint fermentation smell is noticeable, to combat theis I have reduced the quantity of brew in the bottle to half full, not 2/3 or 3/4 full. It seems to have helped.
If you can smell the stuff you either have a leak at the bottle, or the flow rate is too fast in the water column and the smell is escaping through the airline in the tank. I do not use a bubble counter so I go directly from the bottles into the tank and when the CO2 is too fast to disslove, some of the faint fermentation smell is noticeable, to combat theis I have reduced the quantity of brew in the bottle to half full, not 2/3 or 3/4 full. It seems to have helped.
Thanks for all of your help! Has any of your reactors ever exploded? I would liek to know how to prevent this.
Some one said never to let the water siphen into the bottle. Whould one of those $0.99 checkvalves work or would this make the bottle gain to much pressure before it can open it?? Just an idea I duno if anyone has tried it
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i found the one time I relied on the checkvalve it had failed, perhaps carbonic acid ate it up, I don't know. I just make sure to put the bottle on the tank, with the line looped on top of the bottle, as the water pump pressure in the reactor gives about 6 inches of water rise above the tank level when the bottle is uncovered, even on top of the tank. And always have a towel handy.
i found the one time I relied on the checkvalve it had failed, perhaps carbonic acid ate it up, I don't know. I just make sure to put the bottle on the tank, with the line looped on top of the bottle, as the water pump pressure in the reactor gives about 6 inches of water rise above the tank level when the bottle is uncovered, even on top of the tank. And always have a towel handy.
So make sure the bottle is above the tank? Im thinking abouti making a box to put it in so if it does explode it wont get all over.
Better to plan for it not exploding that to plan on it doing so.
It is fine to have the bottle below the tank while it is making gas well, the bottle is ugly and there is room to hide it below the tank. But, if you open the bottle, the loss of pressure will suck water up the airline from the tank (actually it seem to be water expanding as it absorbs the gas, but I'm not sure of the mechanism -- whatever, it draws water up the line.). Once that water gets above the edge of the tank, gravity makes it flow down the line all over the floor. So, just don't do that.
If you open the bottle, put it on top of the tank first. Easy.
That isn't exploding, it just runs yeasty sugar water from the generator, or even the bubble counter, up the line to the tank if you aren't careful. A check valve ought to hold it. I don't know why mine failed. I don't trust check valves that are plastic that have had CO2 and water in them now.
The reactor could explode, I've read about that in the old Krib archives, but never in recent times as far as I know. More often some pet or sibling or baby knocks it over. Nasty goo travels up the line into the tank. The soda bottles are unstable so tie it to something or use a square juice type bottle.
If the airstone has fouled from not using a bubble counter, you'll probably notice that reduced rate before much pressure would build up. If you had a bubble counter that fouling wont happen.
f you have a bubble counter you'd notice if it were filled with yeasty goo. The bubble counter liquid would have traveled into the tank, but it is pretty clean water, not dangerous. It ain't fool proof but it buys you time to notice the problem.
So, if you're going to build anything, build a bubble counter, and make sure the line is long enough so that you can easily move the generator and the bubble counter to the top of the tank together, be sure the lines are long enough.
Since i dont know what a bubble counter is or what it does i cant really build one
This is like hte stupidest i ever felt when it came to my aquarium. lol.
This is like hte stupidest i ever felt when it came to my aquarium. lol.