I may have just dripped tap water from the airlock into the primary

tucking it into it's shelf required more bending of the airlock than I planned.

Airlock was FULLY sanitized but filled with tap water.

any worries?

pbowler said:

tucking it into it's shelf required more bending of the airlock than I planned.

Airlock was FULLY sanitized but filled with tap water.

any worries?

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RDWHAHB

It's probably fine. I've had tap water spray into my brew pot because the line blew off of the immersion chiller. Still no infections.

Unless your tap water is undrinkable, you'll be fine. I only boil 3 gals and add directly to 2 gals tap water and my beer tastes great.

Forget about it, any problems are extremely unlikely.

yah i mix my wort with cold tap water to cool it down =)

Not a problem.

phew!

I felt like an ass after hours of sanitizing and strict temp control, having a hasty storage maneuver like that infect me would have made me nuts.

In college I used to cool the 2 gallon wort with 3 gallons from the shower!!!
then again 2 out of 3 beers were undrinkable (no temp control 80f+ ferment temps)
good times...

BrewProject said:

RDWHAHB

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and this is a test of my favorite smiley of all time

:drool:

No worries. I dropped a cookie in mine once. It still turned out.

Relax
Don't
Worry,
Have
A
Home
Brew

Don't listen to these unworry-worts! You've most likely ruined your entire batch. Fortunately, I have a good use for ruined beer. So, just you go ahead and let it go through secondary, bottle it, and send it my way. I'll put it to good use.

Pumbaa said:

Relax
Don't
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Have
A
Home
Brew

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brilliant!

Evan! said:

Don't listen to these unworry-worts! You've most likely ruined your entire batch. Fortunately, I have a good use for ruined beer. So, just you go ahead and let it go through secondary, bottle it, and send it my way. I'll put it to good use.

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oh no!, well at least you have a use for it...

The Czechvar is in the mail...

Pbowler,

I hope a sanitized airlock full of tap water won't hurt your brew because I use three gallons of cold tap water in my primary fermenter!

soooo, I'm getting that tap water is fairly bacteria free, it must have enough chlorine in it now that I think of it...

The thing that might scare me about that situation is if the water had been sitting in the airlock for a few days and had stuff bubbling through it for a while. But no worries on brew day.

good point, I've heard of infections climbing up blow off lines so that's what had me worried, but that is probably more like the situation you describe.

BTW, she's Krausen and Bubblin' as we speak

suppose I could use whiskey in there?

I don't have any Vodka...

You could use whiskey. Any spirit that's > 40% would do the trick.

And congrats! Sounds like you are well on your way to a delicious brew!

cool thanks,

and thanks!