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Originally Posted by Tweeder
yea it's a mismatch bucket lid combo, but heck the bucket and lid are the same size just different brands.....Anyway will this lack of seal disturb the flavor or add too much oxygen, airborne bacteria, bad juju to the batch? As long as it comes out alright I won't mind....just this one time  |
Think of it this way... Belgian and English beer makers have been using open fermenters for a few hundred years, meaning they just have huge vats of fermenting beer with no lid on them at all. And they've been known to make a decent beer or two.
People joke about "relax and have a home brew"... but it honestly is the best advice a lot of times.
It takes a fair amount of work to ruin a batch of beer. It might miss it's style. You might get some flavors that weren't intended... but as long as you're at least decent about sanitation, you'll be golden.
... and the more beer you make, the more and more comfortbale you'll get and the more knowledge you'll get and the more you can control exactly what youi get as an end result.
So... in the mean time.... relax and have a home brew (or a nice micro if you don't have any home brew available)!!
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