Hello ladies and gents,
I am currently preparing for my first ever solo brew day. Last night I prepared a 2000ml yeast starter for the belgian golden strong I will be brewing using the belgian ardennes strain by wyeast. As this was my first ever starter for my first ever brew I was obsessive over sanitization...or so I thought. I woke up in the middle of the night to an oh **** lightbulb.
When prepping my starter I star saned my beaker, stir bar, scissors, foam plug, yeast package and my hands. I boiled the DME on my stove in a pot and transferred to the beaker with a ladel, the same ladle I used to stir the boiling DME, the same damn ladel I did NOT think to sanitize in my moment of sheer newbyism. I'm asking if it may be infected due to this oversite. As the spoon was in boiling DME multiple times I'm hoping this may have killed any of the bad bugs, but I also don't want to screw up my first brew. Any thoughts or guidance on this would be very appreciated.
-thanks, Brian
I am currently preparing for my first ever solo brew day. Last night I prepared a 2000ml yeast starter for the belgian golden strong I will be brewing using the belgian ardennes strain by wyeast. As this was my first ever starter for my first ever brew I was obsessive over sanitization...or so I thought. I woke up in the middle of the night to an oh **** lightbulb.
When prepping my starter I star saned my beaker, stir bar, scissors, foam plug, yeast package and my hands. I boiled the DME on my stove in a pot and transferred to the beaker with a ladel, the same ladle I used to stir the boiling DME, the same damn ladel I did NOT think to sanitize in my moment of sheer newbyism. I'm asking if it may be infected due to this oversite. As the spoon was in boiling DME multiple times I'm hoping this may have killed any of the bad bugs, but I also don't want to screw up my first brew. Any thoughts or guidance on this would be very appreciated.
-thanks, Brian