Hi. Longtime lurker, first time poster.
So I bottled my beers a couple days ago, and I was trying a new system to maintain my bottling temp around 70. I had the bottles in a water bath in a cooler, heated with an aqaurium heater. Bad idea, i guess. I noticed today that the bottle caps have some rust on them. It seems to be mostly along the edges of the crimps, probably where some of the paint was scratched off by the capper. I'm assuming that with the lid closed, water evaporated and condensesd on the inside of the lid, as well as on the tops of the bottles, causing the rust.
Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone have some advice on what the longterm consequences of this might be? I'm hoping the worst is that the caps willl just look a little ugly, but I'm wondering if the rust could spread and eventually impart some kind of bad flavor.
I was considering taking the caps off and replacing them, but without adding more priming sugar, I'd probably never get full carbonation. Is that a reasonable assumption?
Any adviced would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
-Chad
So I bottled my beers a couple days ago, and I was trying a new system to maintain my bottling temp around 70. I had the bottles in a water bath in a cooler, heated with an aqaurium heater. Bad idea, i guess. I noticed today that the bottle caps have some rust on them. It seems to be mostly along the edges of the crimps, probably where some of the paint was scratched off by the capper. I'm assuming that with the lid closed, water evaporated and condensesd on the inside of the lid, as well as on the tops of the bottles, causing the rust.
Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone have some advice on what the longterm consequences of this might be? I'm hoping the worst is that the caps willl just look a little ugly, but I'm wondering if the rust could spread and eventually impart some kind of bad flavor.
I was considering taking the caps off and replacing them, but without adding more priming sugar, I'd probably never get full carbonation. Is that a reasonable assumption?
Any adviced would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
-Chad