******* accidents with first homebrew?

[kennethm]

Today was my very first and long awaited extract homebrew. I love wheat beers and there normaly unfiltered so i thought i would start with it. But even though i had planed it out over and over on paper and in my head so as not to screw it up, the very thing happend that i just knew wouldn't. I constructed a fermenter out of a keg and just brass screws to fasted down the lid. I went over it several time and i had drilled the holes just to the right size where the screw would go up from the bottum with a lil wiggleing and stay with nothing holding it. Well one of the damn things fell in. Does anybody think it will have a negitave effect on the beer? Oh and it had a rubber O ring on it as well. Any and all ifno would be great and much appreciated.
thanks, Ken

 

[hexmonkey]

It might depend on how dirty the brass screw was, since I assume you didn't sanitize it. It'll probably be fine as long as it fell in after the fermentation got rolling.

How were you planning to open the lid if it was fastened from the bottom? Wouldn't it have fallen in anyway? Or am I visualizing this wrong?

 

[kennethm]

I said that wrong. It wasn't a screw it was a bolt and a wing nut held it on at the top. I washed it several times and sanitized it in bleach water then let it dry.

 

[BenS]

You should be fine. RDWHAHB. Or your favorite commercial beer in your case. Homebrewing is best enjoyed with no worries.

 

[hexmonkey]

You should be fine. RDWHAHB.

agreed.

 

[Revvy]

WHen you beer turns out great you can add your "screwey" tale to this thrad of collected stories.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/wh...where-your-beer-still-turned-out-great-96780/

In the mean time read it while you are drinking commercial brew and relaxing.