StophJS

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I ferment my beer at my parents house because its the only place I have access to stable temperatures, and their genius foreign exchange student dragged a sleeping bag across my bucket fermenter and knocked the airlock off in the process. The beer is a robust porter and has been in there for three weeks. The airlock was off for a day before my Dad saw it and put it back on. Has this kind of thing happened to anyone else? Is infection my only concern or also oxidation? Thanks.

Edit: Sorry, probably not the best choice of forum section.

Boleslaus

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My guess is that it will be totally fine. I'm sure there is a chance of infection, but it is very small. The pressure inside the fermenter from the CO2 will keep any oxygen from coming inside. So unless a bee flew in through the hole and dropped off some wild yeast everything will be perfectly fine.

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Butter

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It'll be fine. We left our cooled wort outside on the porch overnight and didn't have a problem. Homebrew us tougher than people think.

StophJS

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Yeah I figure it shouldn't be too big a deal. I bottled it today actually; I should probably be more concerned that it doesn't taste anything like a porter.

bkorver

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Definitely. The CO2 is much heavier than the air outside the bucket, so it is doubtful anything nasty got in. It is really hard to totally screw up a batch of home brew short of having a dirty fermentation vessel or dirty bottling bucket/siphon/bottles.

StophJS

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Just perpetually paranoid since my infected batch I guess.