Falling under feces occurs...

[IrishOdell]

Okay, here's my story. I was having a happy brew and bottling day. Everything was going fantastic! Last batch bottled and put up age, so I started brewing my first shot at something like Kronenbourg 1664 for my wife. Everything went according to plan until I started getting phone calls and texts from my wife, the Pope and all his merry men... So in frustration I set my cell phone on the counter right above the kettle of wort that I'm cooling down. When all of a sudden, as if some evil gnome using The Force, my phone springs off the counter directly into my kettle of precious wort. So using my ninja cat reflexes I plunge my hand in to rescue my phone. Rescue was amazingly successful!
Now to the root of my problem... I decided to continue with the process in spite of the obvious contamination, cooled, pitched the yeast, and let it start the primary fermentation. I noticed today that it was putting out a lot of gas in the blow off jug, all good... I don't know! It has a strong, almost sulfur smell in the jug of water my blow off is running into. I'm going to list my ingredients below. My question(s), is the sulfur-ish smell normal with these ingredients?, is all lost call it a lesson learned?, do I continue for a another week or so to see if the wort/beer tastes okay? Also, it looks like there's a moderate amount of hops on top of the krausen, again is this normal?
Here's my list of ingredients and I'd certainly appreciate any wisdom I can get from you the more experienced masses. Thanks to all for any input!
Slainte!
Ingredients;
Grains steeped...
Munich I (Weyermann) 8 oz. and Aciduated 3 oz. (Weyermann)
Boil... (60 minutes)
DME Pilsen Light (1 lb)
LME Pilsen Light (3.lbs 4.8 oz.)
German Traditional Hops
(30 minutes)
Strisslespalt Hops (1.50 oz)
(10 Minutes)
Strisslespalt Hops (0.50 oz)
Honey (1 lb)
Then pitched Lallemand Diamond Lager yeast.

That's all I've got... Thanks again!

 

[Norselord]

its probably fine - your sanitation including phone and arm is probably better than what most breweries had 100 years ago.

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

The yeast is what gives off the farty sulfur smell. Give it a couple weeks and it should go away....definitely don't dump it.

 

[IrishOdell]

Outstanding!! Thanks guys! I was really NOT wanting to write it off! You've made me feel a whole lot better than I did 6 hours ago!!🍻 Slainte!

 

[Nebraskan]

If it's like wine, you can swish some clean copper pipe in it for a few minutes. Copper Sulfate in wine, binds to mercaptans and gets rid of a whole host of sulfurous smells.

 

[IrishOdell]

Excellent! Will that change the chemical composition of my beer?

 

[Brownalemikie]

Hmmm, I'm curious about the word "feces" in your title.

 

[IrishOdell]

Feces occurs = **** happens...

 

[Northern_Brewer]

It's a punctuation thing, I read it first as

Falling under f(a)eces, occurs

which sounds a whole lot less pleasant on a brewday than

Falling under "f(a)eces occurs"

 

[IrishOdell]

LOL! Most certainly!!😂

 

[chickypad]

Yeah I was confused too, I though maybe a pigeon dive bombed your kettle. Beer sounds fine.

 

[balrog]

lager yeast =
sulphur smell

fairly common
usually called rhino farts, but that's up to the naming convention folks

 

[IrishOdell]

Gotcha!! Thanks for the heads up! I think my wife and kids are gonna shoot me over the smell!😁
As for the pigeon... I blame it for knocking my phone in the wort! Using the Force of course!
Oddly enough apparently said phone likes beer as much as I do! It's back to operational! It must've had a hangover and it just won't let me talk when it's had too much!🍻

 

[Qhrumphf]

I dropped my phone in the kettle mid boil once. I fished it out (not with my arm!), and proceeded, but the phone did not survive.

From the thread title I too thought you got sh** on by a bird or something.

 

[day_trippr]

weirdest thread in awhile...

 

[balrog]

By the way, there's a thread somewhere on making a quickmactivated charcoal filter for a 3 pc airlock w a yogurt container which works wonders. But I am lazy and found that putting charcoal in a hop sock laid on top of said 3 pc airlock works just fine when I am making for example EdWorts Apfelwein which is notorious for rhino farts

 

[MaryB]

I pictured slipping while brewing and having bag of manure fertilizer fall or something... LOL drinking while brewing = bad results at times

 

[PKHomeBrew]

The title made me think that you dropped your phone in your beer, and later realized that you dropped your phone in the toilet first - or something.

I once was cooling my beer with my wort chiller copper coil, and the hose flew off the end of the coil and sprayed water from inside the coil into my beer. I wasn't sure what to do, so I put my beer back on the burner and boiled it for another 10 minutes I think. It may have been fine without that, but that's what I did.

 

[ericbw]

Maybe "filing under" was more appropriate.

All that being said, your post is no different from every other "is this normal" thread. NO, it is not normal to drop your phone in the wort. They say you can put it in a bag of rice and hope it dries out, but I think it would be fried after full submersion. What kind of phone was it?

Yes, hops in the krausen is normal. Yes, sulfur is somewhat normal (although maybe not ideal).