Had a blowout - will this cause issues?

[bassballboy]

This is a first for me - I made a wheat beer, the only fermentables in the 5G batch was 6lb of wheat DME and .5lb of carapils. I used Wyeast 1010, no starter. I put it in the primary Saturday night (~8:00PM)

It was bubbling strongly yesterday, I checked it at roughly 10:00PM last night and it was still going storng. I got up this morning and checked it at 8AM to find the whole lid had been shot off onto the floor. I keep everything in my pantry, so nothing should have been able to get into it, but are there any other concerns I should have? This is a first for me.

 

[pksmitty]

With all the CO2 coming out of the fermentor, nothing could get in. Clean and sanitize the lid and put it back on. Then hook up a blowoff tube. You'll be fine.

By the way, pics or it didn't happen!

 

[HappyDrunk]

Nope! Just clean everything well, and put the lid back on.

 

[homebrewdad]

Nope. Clean it up and life will be good. You have enough CO2 pressure (obviously) to keep comtaminants out.

Consider going to a blowoff, though, at least until the violent phase is done,.

 

[bassballboy]

With all the CO2 coming out of the fermentor, nothing could get in. Clean and sanitize the lid and put it back on. Then hook up a blowoff tube. You'll be fine.

By the way, pics or it didn't happen!

Dang, I totally should have taken pictures, the shock was too much for me to even think about that!


And thanks everyone, glad to hear it should be ok

 

[idahobrew]

My first batch was a wheat that blew and it came out just fine.