Sorry if it had to be posted elsewhere, but since the brew under question is all grain, I decided to to try it here. The story is simple - when I was shaking the cooled wort in a carboy to give it its five minutes of aeration, I accidentally pushed the rubber plug too far, and it fell right into the wort.
It was a plain rubber plug, and the only sanitizing it received was hot tap water and soap. I had a spare clean carboy, and I could (and probably, should) transfer the wort into it, but I decided to experiment and kept it for the whole time of fermentation, which lasted for 12 days. When bottling, I noticed that the beer was cloudy. It tasted OK though. It was an AHS Ordinary bitter, a very simple daily beer, nothing fancy. Also, I have brewed it with exactly same everything for at least ten times, and it never came out cloudy. Today I tasted it after a week - it didn't clear a bit, but tasted quite good, just as it usually does.
If anybody had a similar story, please let me know how your beer turned out. And also, in general, do you guys think that this cloudiness is related to some bacteria?
It was a plain rubber plug, and the only sanitizing it received was hot tap water and soap. I had a spare clean carboy, and I could (and probably, should) transfer the wort into it, but I decided to experiment and kept it for the whole time of fermentation, which lasted for 12 days. When bottling, I noticed that the beer was cloudy. It tasted OK though. It was an AHS Ordinary bitter, a very simple daily beer, nothing fancy. Also, I have brewed it with exactly same everything for at least ten times, and it never came out cloudy. Today I tasted it after a week - it didn't clear a bit, but tasted quite good, just as it usually does.
If anybody had a similar story, please let me know how your beer turned out. And also, in general, do you guys think that this cloudiness is related to some bacteria?