Today I bottled my first batch of beer and find myself worrying about contamination. Not so much from brew day, but today, while clumsily racking to the bottling bucket I know parts of the tubing touched unsanitized surfaces then was submerged into the beer. Also after sanitizing them in an iodine solution and rinsing with tap water, I set the bottling equipment on a clean, but unsanitized table cloth until they were needed.
Am I being a "worry-wort" (no pun intended), or are tap water, unsanitized counter tops, or an unsanitized clean table cloth legitimate things to worry about?
Brewing was fun. I can't wait to reap the fruit of my labors.
Am I being a "worry-wort" (no pun intended), or are tap water, unsanitized counter tops, or an unsanitized clean table cloth legitimate things to worry about?
Brewing was fun. I can't wait to reap the fruit of my labors.