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Originally Posted by Tropicalgrower
If any of you have had this problem and were using airlocks,how did you handle the ever expanding juice level??
If it starts pushing through the airlock by morning,I'll have to maybe take the lid off and remove some of the liquid.(?)
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I've had it happen when making beer. In those instances I have had to rig up a blow-off tube. Not sure it's worth the trouble with a small fermentation like yours, but here's how it works --
Replace the airlock with a length of tubing run into another jar/bottle that has enough water in it to keep the opposite end of the tube submerged. Then make sure it sits below the fermentation container (for example, if the fermenter is on a table, put the blow-off jar down on a chair next to it).
This takes the place of the airlock and allows for any overflow to pass through the tube and out into the other jar.
Once things settle down and I have just air coming through again, I replace the tube with the regular airlock.
Again, I do this for larger projects.
Hopefully someone with sauerkraut experience chimes in!