When I came downstairs this morning to let the dogs out, I decided to check on the fermentation of yesterday’s beer (Fat Tire clone). It’s not what I had expected to find.

It turns out the Wyeast American Wheat Ale yeast that we used is a VERY active yeast, active enough that it blew the lid right off the fermenter. What’s really shocking is that I figured this sort of thing typically happens for higher gravity ales, where this one’s gravity was 1.050.

I was able to quickly switch from an airlock to a blow-off.