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I just made one Thursday and it only ran me $30-35. I actually just used it yesterday for the first time and it chilled my wort to 80 degrees in 15-20 minutes

That's really reassuring, but I'm not so worried about it being contaminated as much as I'm worried about it having off flavors or things floating in it. It's whatever though, if this batch fails I've always got homebrew left from my other batch :mug:

thanks for the help fellas 8)

Well my girlfriend just found the top of the package in the garbage so I guess that wasn't it. I guess it was just my paranoia getting the best of me. Although there is a nice layer of burnt looking paper along the bottom of my brew pot, this is what I thought was the hop pellet package, any...

It broke apart and lost it's shiny coating, but I don't think it melted.

So I'm on my second batch, it's an Irish red ale, and I'm pretty sure I just ruined it. Everything was going great, I was adding the second packet of hops, US Goldings, and somehow the top of the hop pellet package were I had cut it open at, fell into the wort. I tried getting most of it...