Why would you bother going about sanitizing another piece of equipment and letting the fermenting beer touch the air just to affix a fermentation lock if you already have a blowoff tube in place?
So i brewed my first batch a little over a week ago (president's day) and i was just going over what I did to see how i thought things went and i realized that i used water straight from the tap to put in my carboy to which i then add the malted and boiled water i had been working with the whole...