Bubbler seal....

[Blackline]

So during my first brew ever I learned a few things. One being that you are supposed to put the bubbler on the lid first then put the lid on the fermenter bucket. I did not know this....

So I put the lid on locked it in to place then grabbed my bubbler. *here is the bad part* When I put the bubbler in the hole I popped the rubber seal right in to the bucket! I tried and tried to get the seal out with a spoon.. but I finally had to use my arm... LOL I did my best to sanitize my hand and half my arm. Did I do a huge no no by putting my arm in the wort?

I hope I don't have stuff growing in my beer!

 

[david_42]

Well, you're not the first person to do this and in most cases, the batch turned out ok.

 

[Blackline]

I hope so. I know how important sanitizing is.. I think it will just take a few brews for me to get the hang of every thing.

 

[Evan!]

As long as your arm was sanitized, it should be fine. I did something similar a few days ago...I had just racked my wee heavy from primary, and I went to put a solid undrilled stopper in the carboy until I had time to harvest the cake. Well, I hadn't used that stopper before, and bam, it went right into the carboy. Ugh. So I ended up pouring the yeast cake out , then rinsing the carboy with a bottlejet...then I took a wire hanger, made "tongs" out of it, with the end of each "tong" turned back in a hook. After a few tries, I got it out of there...what a pain! Though, it could have been worse...there could have been beer in there.

 

[Blackline]

Oh my that sounds like a pain!

Kinda like a crazy game at the State Fair... Win a stuffed animal if you can get it out with out touching the sides!

 

[user 4295]

Welcome to the infamous "push the airlock grommet into your brew, club"! I did the exact same thing on my first brew. The only difference was I sanitized my wife's arm instead and sent her in after it. I reasoned that there was less overall surface area and with much less hair! She bought it!

By the way, mine came out fine, and in fact was pretty damn good!

John

 

[Yooper]

yep, I did it too. I didn't go after it, just used my siphoning tubing to make a blow off tube instead of using my airlock. The next time I was at the brewstore, I bought a couple more of those grommets.

Now I feel like Rainman- muttering to myself while brewing, "Airlock on the lid BEFORE lid on the bucket". Welcome to the club!

Lorena

 

[SteveM]

I did it too, and so did many others. I used the same extraction technique you did and the beer was fine.

 

[brewt00l]

fwiw, I usually dip tubes/air locks/ect into a bit of my sanitizer right before pushing them into the grommets and bungs to reduce the friction a bit.

....hmm..that doesn't sound right

 

[Raffie]

Its a learning experiance, 1st time does not mean your dumb, it does when your a repeat offender of the same crime against BEER.

To many offences means you have to EBAY all your equiptment for $1 and never get into brewing again.

 

[Blackline]

I'm happy to hear that I'm not alone on that one !" I was standing over the bucket thinking to my self "man... that was really stupid" "How are you going to get that out

BTW the beer turned out great! Now I just have to try and not drink it all before St Patty's day. I'm hoping to have a party and still have some of this stuff to drink!