Airlock predicament

[ILOVEBEER]

It is my first fermentation. I brewed a raspberry wheat and in the first 36 hours it was going insane in the one gallon airlock I was using. It got so bad it was spraying foamy residue out of the top...and the airlck was only 2/3 full.

Anyway, fermentation has slowed to a few perculations a minute. The airlock started to smell and it looked like someone puked in the bucket it was held in...my pregnant wife gagged everytime she walked by it.

So................I sanitized a pitcher, took out the blowoff hose and shoved it into the gallon pitcher while I cleaned the original airlock.

I got the airlock cleaned, threw some sanitizer in it and reinserted the blowoff hose.

I started thinking...."oh crap did I just contaminate my beer?"

Did I just mess up?

 

[david_42]

No, CO2 production will prevent contamination from entering the fermenter.

 

[ILOVEBEER]

Thank you...so in the future if the airlock becomes crazily dity and smelly it is ok to transfer the hose to a temporary airlock...clean the dirty one and replace it?

Thanks

 

[Montanaandy]

so in the future if the airlock becomes crazily dity and smelly it is ok to transfer the hose to a temporary airlock...clean the dirty one and replace it?

This is what I do. I make certain to spray everything down thoroughly with Star San to make certain that it is sanitized. Montanaandy