derekp83
Well-Known Member
Today I was racking from my primary fermenter to the bottling bucket, and it took a while for the beer to come out the spigot on my primary. Once it finally did, I noticed a disgusting hairy looking insect, looked sort of like a sponge, and it was in the middle of my racking hose. I stopped it from going in my bottling bucket, poured it down the drain, dumped the little bit of beer that had gone into the bucket and resanitized it. I then went on with my bottling process. When I cleaned up, I noticed some black gunk in my spigot. I took a q-tip and cleaned it, then out came this disgusting, inky, leech-look alike.
Has anyone ever experienced this? Also, does anyone know where I can get caps for my spigots to prevent this in the future, or have other suggestions? I wonder if my beer/ABV is acidic enough that it doesn't matter that 4 gallons of beer passed through the disgusting creature.
Has anyone ever experienced this? Also, does anyone know where I can get caps for my spigots to prevent this in the future, or have other suggestions? I wonder if my beer/ABV is acidic enough that it doesn't matter that 4 gallons of beer passed through the disgusting creature.