Do I need to re-pitch yeast?

[akajdg]

I had an issue today where I had pitched my yeast and had sealed the lid on the 6.5 gallon container. When putting the air lock, the rubber gasket on the bucket dislodged and fell in. I had already pitched my yeast. In an attempt to recover the air lock gasket, I re strained the worth through the strainer into another bucket, then back into the primary. Should I add more yeast, or am I good?

 

[BrewMU]

The yeast will be fine, if you pitched a healthy batch to begin with - you just aerated your wort again.

 

[msa8967]

I would not add any more yeast. It should be fine. I would recommend buying a few extra grommets (rubber gaskets) in case this happens again. They are about 50 cents at the local hardware store. I am mentioning this because it once happened to me early on in brewing and I did what you mentioned doing but did not have everything well sanitized and this contributed to an infection in my beer.

 

[akajdg]

The yeast will be fine, if you pitched a healthy batch to begin with - you just aerated your wort again.

Thank you very much for your reply! I learned my lesson today.

 

[akajdg]

I would not add any more yeast. It should be fine. I would recommend buying a few extra grommets (rubber gaskets) in case this happens again. They are about 50 cents at the local hardware store. I am mentioning this because it once happened to me early on in brewing and I did what you mentioned doing but did not have everything well sanitized and this contributed to an infection in my beer.

Glad I'm not the only one to go through this, thank you very much and this saves me a 45 min trip back to the home brew store.