Yes Orfy but not everyone wants a lambic...controlling the environment is important for newbies.
Relax positive pressure is good, pop the lid back on and have a beer.
And it is more likely that an experienced brewer, like myself, will slip up in our process/sanitation practice, or have scratched equiptment/gunk hiding in our hoses from lots of use, or from just becoming overconfident/ lazy, then a hyper vigilent, first time or beginning brewer using the most rudimentary of sanitization practices on relatively new equipment.
But for all that, beer is a lot hardier than we give it credit.
Some people come down on me for saying this, but beer has been made (nearly spontaneously) since the Ancient Babylonians, and up until Louis Pasteur came along, with almost no knowledge about sanitzation practices.
And yes it may not have tasted as good as ours today (or maybe it did, we'll never really know), and yes sometimes it got infected BUT it must have been uninfected most of the time, and must have been damn good or else we wouldn't be drinking it today...it would have gone the way of the betamax, or Pepsi Clear, or New Coke, if most of the time it sucked.
So even the sloppiest of our sanitation practices blow away the ancient methods...even us simply having an enclosed place, clean fresh water, and the fact that we bathe on occasion is more than the ancients had...
BTW, your beer is fine...it happens to all of us at one time or antother.
On Thursday afternoon I brewed a batch of Sly Fox beer. I put it into a 7.9 gallon fermenting bucket and used one of those rubber stoppers with a airlock (half filled with idoral solution). On Friday night, the stopper with the airlock still attached BLEW out of the bucket ... Foam and beer everywhere. It was late, so I didn't clean anything up, just cleaned the stopper and airlock - filled it with Vodka and put it back into the bucket. This morning, the airlock was filled with 'brew' ... what should I do? Since it doesn't appear to be bubbling any more, how long do I wait to move it over to the 2nd ferment carboy???? This is only my second batch of beer - the first batch behaved - this one seems to have a mind of its own.
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