Dropped my stopper in my starter

[VeroBeachBrewer]

Ok, I whipped up a starter using Wyeast 3522 Belgian Ardennes. Everything was going fine - starter wort prepared, activator nicely swollen and added - then I screwed up and pushed the stopped completely into the jar. The rubber stopper was mostly sanitized in Starsan, but maybe not completely. Is the starter completely lost?

 

[Alchemy]

to paraphrase someone else on this forum, so long as you didnt poop in it, you are going to be fine.

 

[mccumath]

to paraphrase someone else on this forum, so long as you didnt poop in it, you are going to be fine.

... This one time, my fermenter was fermenting next to the toilet, and I had forgot to put the lid on it. I had real bad diarrhea, and missed the toilet and it went right into the fermenter... Beer was fine!...

Haha just kidding! Your starter will be fine!

EDIT: place a relatively loose piece of tin foil over your starter flask/vessel. You want O2 to be able to get into your vessel. Using a stopper/airlock/combo of these things actually decreases your ability to obtain the maximum amount of cell growth based on your method (i.e. Stir plate, intermittent shaking, just letting it sit, etc.) because it decreases the amount of O2 available to the yeast starter.

 

[VeroBeachBrewer]

LOL! I'll try not to take a dump near it.

I am feeling reassured, though! thanks for the support.