TyrolBrewing
New Member
Hello ya'll - I am worried that I ruined my first batch last night.
So I'm brewing a 5g batch and had transferred it from primary to secondary a week ago. I am doing the secondary in the sanitized bottling bucket. Last night, I checked the gravity of the beer. After putting the lid back on the bucket, I was putting the airlock into the hole in the lid when the little piece of black rubber around that hole fell into the beer! Quickly taking the lid off, I could see that it wasn't floating. So now I have this piece of unsanitized rubber at the bottom of my beer.
Is this an obvious issue or is there still a chance that the beer can be good? I was planning to bottle today since the gravity has stabilized.
Any advice on saving or ditching my first batch? I don't want to end up with bottle bombs...
Cheers,
TB
So I'm brewing a 5g batch and had transferred it from primary to secondary a week ago. I am doing the secondary in the sanitized bottling bucket. Last night, I checked the gravity of the beer. After putting the lid back on the bucket, I was putting the airlock into the hole in the lid when the little piece of black rubber around that hole fell into the beer! Quickly taking the lid off, I could see that it wasn't floating. So now I have this piece of unsanitized rubber at the bottom of my beer.
Is this an obvious issue or is there still a chance that the beer can be good? I was planning to bottle today since the gravity has stabilized.
Any advice on saving or ditching my first batch? I don't want to end up with bottle bombs...
Cheers,
TB