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Great video, cheers.

Here's a question for brewers out there...
On this video, at about the 1.35 countdown mark, there is alot of brown gunk on the surface of the raising foam. Some people use a blowoff tube to remove this material claiming it contributes to a bitter taste in the final beer. Does anyone here use this trick? Is it worthwhile?

I use a blowoff tube, but only to stop my airlocks clogging. We use 19 (and a bit) litre watercooler bottles as fermenters, so there's not much headspace when you have 17-18 litres of beer in it. The tube blows off loads of yeast, so we end up with a cm or more layer of it in the blow off vessel (filled with sani), but it doesn't take away the gunk really as this still gets plastered to the sides of the fermenter.

So in my experience it's worth it if you'd normally use an airlock and don't want to risk it getting bunged up. In fact, a mate in work just had his wife on the phone telling him a bung with an airlock just flew off a demijohn at home due to the krausen clogging it <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

If you use a bucket/brewbin, it might help direct aggressive krausen out in a controlled way so it doesn't seep all over the place.

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Ichiban, the brewers who have guided me through my early experiences say it's fine to just let it settle out into the beer, but some people do skim it off.

Our stout has had three weeks in the bottle...

Despite the pressures of the BrewCam, it turned out lovely!

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I just saw the videos and they're the most entertaining beer videos I've seen. Nice work!