Well i am brewing my first batch ever and I ran into a little problem today, just wanted to find out if you guys think I will be ok.
I started an Irish red ale 6 days ago in my primary fermenter, which is a plastic ale pail. Today I went to get a hyrdometer reading, and planned to take one again tomorrow and possibly transfer to my carboy for secondary.
After taking my reading and sanitizing everything, I put the lid on and started to put my 3-piece air lock back in place, when I guess I pushed to hard and sent the little rubber seal straight into my brew.
I took the lid off to look for it, but the seal had sunk to the bottom. At this point the only thing I could think to do was to go ahead and transfer to the secondary. I did so using an auto syphon, and there in the leftovers at the bottom was the seal.
Everything appears ok for now, but just wanted to see if this happened to anyone else, and how it turned out!
By the way, my original hydrometer reading was 1.038, and today it was 1.014. I haven't seen bubbles in the air lock for the past 3 days.
Thanks
I started an Irish red ale 6 days ago in my primary fermenter, which is a plastic ale pail. Today I went to get a hyrdometer reading, and planned to take one again tomorrow and possibly transfer to my carboy for secondary.
After taking my reading and sanitizing everything, I put the lid on and started to put my 3-piece air lock back in place, when I guess I pushed to hard and sent the little rubber seal straight into my brew.
I took the lid off to look for it, but the seal had sunk to the bottom. At this point the only thing I could think to do was to go ahead and transfer to the secondary. I did so using an auto syphon, and there in the leftovers at the bottom was the seal.
Everything appears ok for now, but just wanted to see if this happened to anyone else, and how it turned out!
By the way, my original hydrometer reading was 1.038, and today it was 1.014. I haven't seen bubbles in the air lock for the past 3 days.
Thanks