Trencher
Well-Known Member
About 10 days ago I moved my IPA from primary into secondary and dropped in 1 ounce of pellet hops in a hop bag, recommended by my LHBS. Instead of dropping the entire bag into my carboy, I held the last couple inches of the drawstring out of the carboy neck and wrapped it around the stopper and airlock a little, thinking this would make the hop bag a little easier to pull out once I was ready to bottle.
I didn't think much about the beer for a week, and earlier this week decided to check it out and maybe give the hops a good rousing. It seems the cotton drawstring has wicked up some of the beer and now I have a couple of small mold colonies growing there. This evening I wiped down the drawstring and carboy neck with alcohol in hopes of staving off an infection. I'm planning to bottle it as soon as possible, hopefully tomorrow evening, but still feel a little concerned.
Is there any danger of the mold making its way into my beer? Any special precautions I should take when racking into the bottling bucket?
Anyone have a better suggestion for dry-hopping using a hop bag in the future?
I didn't think much about the beer for a week, and earlier this week decided to check it out and maybe give the hops a good rousing. It seems the cotton drawstring has wicked up some of the beer and now I have a couple of small mold colonies growing there. This evening I wiped down the drawstring and carboy neck with alcohol in hopes of staving off an infection. I'm planning to bottle it as soon as possible, hopefully tomorrow evening, but still feel a little concerned.
Is there any danger of the mold making its way into my beer? Any special precautions I should take when racking into the bottling bucket?
Anyone have a better suggestion for dry-hopping using a hop bag in the future?