Superstorm
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Hey everyone, so I just finished brewing my second 3 gallon batch last night (I had to do it this way because I learned the hard way when I tried a 5 gallon carboy in my mini fridge and it wouldn't fit so I had to throw the whole wort away) But I'm wondering if I filled this carboy too full because as you can see by the pic below, the wort is almost up to the neck of the carboy. When I first pitched the yeast, I noticed that it was getting stuck to the blowoff tube and that the carboy was so full that the blowoff tube was actually in the wort. So I was able to get some off, but there was still some more stuck to the glass in the mouth of the carboy, so I used a sanitized butter knife to scrape it off and put it in the wort. But I was still wondering if the carboy this full is going to cause any problems or not because I haven't seen the blowoff tube bubbling into the bucket at all. And that brings me to my next issue, when I was trying to fit everything into the mini fridge, the blowoff bucket spilled all over my A419 temperature controller and it started freaking out and going from 100 degrees all the way down to 80 degrees and it eventually started working better again, but I noticed that it is now 10 degrees off and it was keeping my beer at about 51 degrees when it was supposed to be at 62 degrees. Will this hurt the beer at all? It was kept like that for maybe about 12 hours and I was wondering if that will hurt the fermentation process or mess up the flavor of the beer. It is at 62 degrees now, but the carboys still feel colder than that, I'll post what their temperature is when the temperature strips are on. And my last question is that I didn't realize that the flash was turned on when I took this picture, would that hurt the beer at all if it was exposed to that? Do you think that these batches will be ok, or do I need to toss them and start over again?