luckybeagle
Making sales and brewing ales.
I had a Chimay Gran Reserve clone in my fermentation chamber with a blowoff tube. I was crashing the beer and didn't think to swap the blow off tube with a fresh airlock. Well, the beer shrunk as it got cold, creating a suction and pulling about a pint of starsan into the beer. I didn't think this would be an issue since the sanitizer was so much lower than the carboy, but it still drew it into the carboy.
Normally I wouldn't worry too much, but the growler holding the starsan had a few dead fruit flies in it. The sanitizer liquid was still clear, not cloudy.
Is it possible the starsan neutralized any funk those guys brought in before the starsan liquid ended up in my beer?
The beer is about 10% ABV... and it tastes fine. I've racked it to a clean carboy purged with CO2 and am bringing it from 40F up to room temperature to see if anything grows. What do you think the odds are of this beer getting infected?
Here's a pic before racking to secondary. Not sure if the green is hops material or funk from the liquid going in. I made sure to rack underneath it as best as possible:
Normally I wouldn't worry too much, but the growler holding the starsan had a few dead fruit flies in it. The sanitizer liquid was still clear, not cloudy.
Is it possible the starsan neutralized any funk those guys brought in before the starsan liquid ended up in my beer?
The beer is about 10% ABV... and it tastes fine. I've racked it to a clean carboy purged with CO2 and am bringing it from 40F up to room temperature to see if anything grows. What do you think the odds are of this beer getting infected?
Here's a pic before racking to secondary. Not sure if the green is hops material or funk from the liquid going in. I made sure to rack underneath it as best as possible: