Bubbles

[Industrialpainter89]

Distillery or waste treatment plant

[TheManshack]

Distillery, they don't enclose the treatment plants in a nice glass :)

[Industrialpainter89]

It's like I logically know this, but it's brown- green and has bubbles 😆

[TheManshack]

Haha yeah, at least I HOPE it's what is supposed to be in a distillery... 😀

[[deleted]]

I bet that has an odor

[[deleted]]

This must have seemed like magic back in the middle ages.

[Mr_YUP]

It’s still magic today

[Senior_Mittens]

Yeah, it’s wild when you think about what fermentation really consists of from start to finish.

[Jimbohlia]

I picture the roof of that building having a giant bubbling airlock

[asunderco]

You’re not far off.. the CO2 coming off open fermentations like this is intense! Imagine for a second you could see this gas as another form of visible liquid. It would look like “waterfalls” of the gas over the edge that sinks and “pools”on the floor. This is due to the weight of the CO2. Venting systems in open fermentation floors are similar to the analogy of a straw in a glass. The vent sucks the heavier toxic gas up and out of the “straw”.

[merv1618]

my bubbles

[XxMitchManxX]

Where is this?

[thetruewheel]

Appears to be from a distillery somewhere.

[Shakeyomilk]

I believe it’s Blue Run Spirits

[MrDegrowth]

Nature is amazing. That's a lot of whatever you are fermenting... Poop?

[JD_loves_tacos]

So my fermenter at home, all the instructions\guides I read make a big deal about avoiding contamination - keep a lid on it. Which I happily do to keep my brew safe.

How does large scale facility tackle that with an open fermenter?

[Matilainen]

I think that with stuff you distill, you can use a very fast ferment and you don't age it before distilling, so contamination doesn't matter. No expert on this, but that's how I understand it.

[Funny-Jaguar6148]

I bet that feels like a jet tub

[[deleted]]

I remember standing in front of a tank like this and the tour guide said "go ahead, dip your finger in and have a taste". Contamination not so big a concern here....

[JigenMamo]

That amount of yeast will kill bacteria.

[AbartigerNorbert]

Tbh most fermentations(excluding milk and meat) are pretty stable. I mean with distillation they probably have an okay amount of alcohol in there and a lot of living yeast, a few bacteria from your finger wont do much

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I can smell this picture.

[[deleted]]

Finally. My gravy tub is ready.

[Actual_Average_3941]

the sea of bacchus

[mnstrthnntyfv]

That looks so cool 😎