First homebrew, things seem to be going well. Been in primary 8 days. I think it might be a bland beer as I think I boiled a no boil kit. Instructions said pitch the can of extract in hot/warm water. Anyways I took a sample the otherday, tasted good, smelled good. Only thing tasted funky was it tasted like it had a thousand tiny tiny bubbles in it. I assumed this was gas from the yeast doing its thing. So now im 8 days in and had to transfer my bucket over to a new cooling bucket because the water was destroying my bathtub.
In doing this I did get some suckback from the airlock, I had a lot of suckback at begining of brew but this is 8 days in and the water has been in the lock for 8 days. I hope there was nothing funky in that water considering the whole thing is in my bathroom(coolest place in house).
My main wory is there is a visible air bubble in the spigot, I tried to rock it out to no avail. Should I be worried about oxidation? Can this little bit of air ruin my beer over the course of a few weeks?
Also another question, I want to bottle from the spigot but it seems like it might be to low and I might get some trub in my beer when bottling. Obviously I don't want that, are there any tricks or should I just use a siphon. Im brewing Muntons Irish Stout + 3 Lbs DME, so this beer will be to black to see if there is any trub going through.
In doing this I did get some suckback from the airlock, I had a lot of suckback at begining of brew but this is 8 days in and the water has been in the lock for 8 days. I hope there was nothing funky in that water considering the whole thing is in my bathroom(coolest place in house).
My main wory is there is a visible air bubble in the spigot, I tried to rock it out to no avail. Should I be worried about oxidation? Can this little bit of air ruin my beer over the course of a few weeks?
Also another question, I want to bottle from the spigot but it seems like it might be to low and I might get some trub in my beer when bottling. Obviously I don't want that, are there any tricks or should I just use a siphon. Im brewing Muntons Irish Stout + 3 Lbs DME, so this beer will be to black to see if there is any trub going through.