Question for ya'll. I went to the AHA Rally at Heretic on Saturday and got a five gallons of wort. I used White Labs Best of Both Worlds WLP 200 and pitched it on Saturday, April 29 in my bottling bucket bucket. My wife sent me a picture today of the bottling bucket and wort was coming up through the air lock. I got him and made a blow off tube by inserting my siphon tube into the piston of the air lock and then putting the other end of the siphon tube into a pitcher filled with water and a little Io-Star. The initial water I had in the airlock was not sanitized water. It was from the tap. Also, I took the airlock off and cleaned it off by running it under water and I then put it back in the bung on the lid of the bottling bucket. I did not re-sanitize the airlock. Did I run the risk of contaminating my wort?
Also, since creating the blow off, I am not seeing any bubbling? Could it be that active fermentation has finished? Thank you!
Also, since creating the blow off, I am not seeing any bubbling? Could it be that active fermentation has finished? Thank you!