Bottling Day Disaster?

I bottled my most recent batch last night. Everything was going smoothly until I transferred from the fermenter to the the bottling bucket. Transfer went great but when I set the bottling bucket on the counter to start bottling, I noticed I had a pretty good leak coming from the spigot. I had not tightened the nut on the inside enough and it was leaking. So I sanitized my hand and arm and reached in to tighten the nut and proceeded to bottle. I really do not want to throw a whole batch away so I will will give it time to carbonate and see what I have. Anyone else have issues similar to mine and how did the beer turn out?

I'm sure you're fine. Definitely don't throw it out unless it tastes bad.

I had that very same thing happen on one batch...and I cured it the very same way: sanitized my hand and arm, reached in and tightened the nut. And had absolutely NO problems with the batch bottle-carbing. So, you should be good to go! Oh...and Merry Christmas!

glenn514

Yeah, you'll most likely get away with it.

Rick

Done the same thing, dont worry...should be fine.

I've done this several times....you will be fine.

I had a small leak - went ahead and bottled, and cleaned up the spilled beer later.

histo320 said:

i've done this several times....you will be fine.

Click to expand...

+1

Worst case you run into an arm hair in a bottle, bleh.

What everyone above said, and Merry Christmas

You sanitized, you beer was already fermented....your probably fine. I had something similar happen once. I had forgotten to tighten the clamp on my hose to my homemade beer gun and the head flew out. while the keg was under pressure. I managed to vent the pressure out of the keg and stop the flow but not before being silhouetted against the wall in beer.

Be sure to come up with a good name for the batch. Maybe "Righty-Tighty!"