Chances of infection?

[nicklawmusic]

I have just inadvertently pushed my airlock in too far into my fermenting beer during high kyrosen. Is it likely to infect my beer? (I haven't retrieved it, by the way!)

 

[nicklawmusic]

Sorry, that should be airlock bung, not the airlock itself.

 

[DocScott]

If it wasn't sanitized, it could. There are a lot of yeast competing with a few "bad guys" though. Only way to know is to wait and see.

 

[SteveLikesBeer]

As DocScott said it could and the only way to know for sure is to wait and see. I have done similar thing in the past and I've yet to have an infected beer from it. If it's easy to do you could remove it, sanitize it wish a spray bottle of star san and place it back where it should be ... but I think the chances of an infection are probably pretty low.