forgot to put center cap in airlock on secondary....

02883r said:

Well.... I am a little green to home brewing, but I love doing it and am learning as I go. I just noticed last night that I put water in the airlock and put the cap on it but didn't put the center cap in (the little thing that sits in the center in the water inside the airlock)..... It has been in the secondary fermenter for one week almost to the day. When I noticed it, I put a new airlock in it (with all parts this time.... ).

Did I ruin my batch?

-Doug

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SkyHighBrew88 said:

Should be fine. I would not worry at all. Your beer is probably pushing out CO2 anyways, not likely that anything would get in.

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pabloj13 said:

I doubt it very much. It was still covered by the cap. It would take a colossal stretch of bad luck to have something fall through the top of the air lock and down that center hole. I'm sure it's fine. Side note, I would put Star-san or something like that in the airlock instead of just water (if that's what you used).

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02883r said:

Is there anything specific I should look for to see if something did go wrong? How can I tell if the batch went bad?

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