It was leaking from the gasket that goes around the spigot assembly so it would have required disassembly of the spigot to fix. Next time I might just leave it alone and clean up the leak mess daily rather than risk the contamination of re-racking it mid-madness.
We maybe could have left it -- the leak was an ounce or two a day -- but decided to transfer just in case the leak got worse or introduced a contamination vector. The fermenter is a 3-gallon "SS Brew Bucket Mini" so an ounce or two a day makes a mess we couldn't live with. I will follow your...
About a day and a half into fermentation we noticed that the fermenter was leaking from the spout. Thus we had no choice but to transfer the wort into a different fermenter since fixing the existing one would have required emptying the fermenter anyway.
At the time of the transfer, the airlock...