mesathinks
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OK rookie mistake, but hey I'm a rookie
I made a half a dozen extract batches without problems (8 years ago). Getting back into it. Wife wanted clearer beer so decided to rack to a clean carboy for last couple of days. We bought a new siphon pump to replace mouth induced siphon (seemed ironic to spend hours sanitizing and then wrap my mouth around a hose and stick it in the wort
The short of it is that I was using the tube to follow the wort down to avoid the trub at bottom and it slipped out stopping the siphon. I hated to lose last 1/2 gallon of beer and pumped the siphon to restart. It aerated the hell out of it before I realized it. I knew it was bad right away but popped on the cap and hoped for the best. Sure enough this morning there was about a half inch wide, full circle floating on top of some not real nice looking crap. Looks definitely bad. No off smell (flat beer) but thinking I should toss it and call it lesson learned.
Any input would be appreciated...
I made a half a dozen extract batches without problems (8 years ago). Getting back into it. Wife wanted clearer beer so decided to rack to a clean carboy for last couple of days. We bought a new siphon pump to replace mouth induced siphon (seemed ironic to spend hours sanitizing and then wrap my mouth around a hose and stick it in the wort
The short of it is that I was using the tube to follow the wort down to avoid the trub at bottom and it slipped out stopping the siphon. I hated to lose last 1/2 gallon of beer and pumped the siphon to restart. It aerated the hell out of it before I realized it. I knew it was bad right away but popped on the cap and hoped for the best. Sure enough this morning there was about a half inch wide, full circle floating on top of some not real nice looking crap. Looks definitely bad. No off smell (flat beer) but thinking I should toss it and call it lesson learned.
Any input would be appreciated...