Have a beer I just moved to carboy for secondary that I was adding a tea bag too. For my process, I boiled 2 cups of water for 10 minutes, chilled it to around 90*C and added the tea bag, then let that sit covered for 20 minutes and chilled down. I racked my beer from primary to secondary ontop of the tea, but I also wanted to add the tea bag for further extraction (elderflower). However, I want to remove it easily in 4 or 5 days.
I soaked some butcher string in starsan for 20 minutes, tied it around the tea bag, pushed the bag through the carboy. The tea bag is suspended in the brew by the string and leads out past the bung.
This was all new to me, and I'm just a little concerned the string my pose an infection point (perhaps I should have boiled it), or could having a damp string leading out the carboy lead to an issue?
I soaked some butcher string in starsan for 20 minutes, tied it around the tea bag, pushed the bag through the carboy. The tea bag is suspended in the brew by the string and leads out past the bung.
This was all new to me, and I'm just a little concerned the string my pose an infection point (perhaps I should have boiled it), or could having a damp string leading out the carboy lead to an issue?