ryan_pants
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I finished my third and most painless all-grain brew yesterday. I had just transfered my last batch to secondary and decided to go ahead and re-use the yeast cake for this new batch. It took a little while but the fermentation just took off and so I swapped the air-lock with a blowoff tube. I must have shoved the tube down further than I realized (couldn't see it - using bucket for primary) and in less than an hour of unsupervised blowing off, about 1/2 of the liquid had been pushed into my blowoff bucket. This was the bottling bucket I'd used yesterday to bottle another batch and while it was rinsed out, it was not properly sanitized.
Is all that brew that made its way to the bottling bucket no good now? If I quickly transfer it to another clean fermenter can it be salvaged? Or should I just throw an airlock on it and let it go too? If I do the later, would it be safe to syphon both fermenters contents into the same secondary? This sucks, I really hate to lose half my batch...
Is all that brew that made its way to the bottling bucket no good now? If I quickly transfer it to another clean fermenter can it be salvaged? Or should I just throw an airlock on it and let it go too? If I do the later, would it be safe to syphon both fermenters contents into the same secondary? This sucks, I really hate to lose half my batch...