1st brew
recipe - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/easiest-beer-i-have-ever-made-recipe-208450/
6:30pm
So I was about to add my boiled wort to the fermenter with chilled water, when I noticed little floaties in the fermenter. The fermenter had been sitting with bleach solution for over an hour, but I didn't want to dump it in with the dust or crap that was now discovered. It could've come from the water jugs (store bought reverse-osmosis drinking water).
I decided not to add the wort. I cleaned out and sanitized the fermenter and ran to the store to get two more gallons of water. I added the two gallons of room temperature water.
Now, the problem was I couldn't get the temperature down to pitch the yeast. I left it uncovered for 3 hours in an ice and cold water bath in the sink. (I might add that the sink is not deep, it wasn't even half way up the fermenter bucket.)
9:30pm
I got it down to 72º and pitched the Safale yeast, which specified pitching temperature at 75º and below. I took a hydrometer reading, closed the lid, and let it do its thing.
This morning, its bubbling no problem, Every 3-5 sec.
Is there still a risk of bacteria that will ravage my beer?
recipe - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/easiest-beer-i-have-ever-made-recipe-208450/
6:30pm
So I was about to add my boiled wort to the fermenter with chilled water, when I noticed little floaties in the fermenter. The fermenter had been sitting with bleach solution for over an hour, but I didn't want to dump it in with the dust or crap that was now discovered. It could've come from the water jugs (store bought reverse-osmosis drinking water).
I decided not to add the wort. I cleaned out and sanitized the fermenter and ran to the store to get two more gallons of water. I added the two gallons of room temperature water.
Now, the problem was I couldn't get the temperature down to pitch the yeast. I left it uncovered for 3 hours in an ice and cold water bath in the sink. (I might add that the sink is not deep, it wasn't even half way up the fermenter bucket.)
9:30pm
I got it down to 72º and pitched the Safale yeast, which specified pitching temperature at 75º and below. I took a hydrometer reading, closed the lid, and let it do its thing.
This morning, its bubbling no problem, Every 3-5 sec.
Is there still a risk of bacteria that will ravage my beer?