Did I Ruin My Beer?

[kimeye01]

I opened the lid of my fermenter briefly today but sealed it back on. Will my beer still be good tomorrow to siphon into a keg? Or do you think that the oxygen has ruined it?

I am kegging my beer for the first time and realized after opening the lid of the fermenter that I wasn't fulled prepared.

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Revvy]

It will be fine....In homebrewing there is so much that we advise folks not to do, yet the one thing that EVERY book, podcast, magazine and website talks about is gravity readings....

How do you think we get them? We open the fermenters to take the readings...

Which evidently, if you're afraid to open it, you're not doing...

 

[kimeye01]

Haha, true. I will try again tomorrow then. Thanks.

 

[garnede]

You have to open them for gravity readings, and for wines to push down a cap of fruit pulp/skins. It is not something you want to do more than you have to, but it is an acceptable risk. Sanitize anything you put into the mix and don't take more time than you have to.