Those vigorous little fuckers did it again. This time, I couldn't find the other half of the airlock, which necessitated an emergency trip to ACE hardware to pick up some 7/16 OD tubing and making a ad-hoc blowoff tube. The beer is swirling and churning and producing CO₂ like there's no tomorrow.

Ok, situation somewhat remedied, the beer started coming out the airlock again. I tried to make a blowoff tube, but failed (wrong size tube). I ended up moving the carboy to the top of the washing machine and taking the "cap" off of the airlock, so it still functions as an airlock, but if it foams over, it can do so freely.

Batch 4.0 decided to explode all over my carpet and shoot half the airlock off sometime in between 3 and 10 am. The situation has been remedied as I have moved cleaned the mess and moved the beer to the linoleum floor of my kitchen.

Batch 3 is ready and it tastes great. Joseph and I are currently brewing some red ale from the Seven Bridges Brewing Co-Op. I'll try and get a camera and post pictures. Let me know if I owe you beer.

It turns out that the beer wasn't in fact black, and it tastes fine. Joseph and I finally bottled batch #3 today and it will be ready for consumption in about a week. Huzzah. Once Joseph gets back from Santa Cruz, I look forward to brewing some red ale.