I fisted my Irish Red!!!

[martinfan30]

This happen to anyone? I was filling my fermenter from the brew pot when I dropped the strainer in the wort in the fermenter that was half full. In my half drunken stupor, I thrust my hand into the wort to remove the strainer. Im going to finish it out and bottle it. I know there's a good chance I infected it though..

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

oh man, not at all what i expected when i saw the title.

was your arm sanitized?

 

[martinfan30]

I had been sanitizing stuff all day but it had been a half hour or so since my hand was in the star san.

 

[homebrewdad]

oh man, not at all what i expected

Exactly what everyone was thinking, and nobody else would say...

OP, is there a chance? Sure. Odds are, though, that the yeast will do their thing and outgrow anything else, and your beer will be fine.

 

[martinfan30]

Exactly what everyone was thinking, and nobody else would say...

OP, is there a chance? Sure. Odds are, though, that the yeast will do their thing and outgrow anything else, and your beer will be fine.

Haha! Just a little humor in the morning.

That's kinda what I was leaning towards.

 

[helibrewer]

When I make wine there are earwigs, spiders, all kinds of $h** in there...you have no worries.

 

[TheMan]

Yeah, there should be no problem. Your beer will be fine.

 

[lowtones84]

I've done the same thing, actually. I did dunk my hand in sanitizer real quick, but not really my arm. My beer was absolutely fine, one of my best batches, actually.

 

[martinfan30]

Cool. I was pissed at first, but then I thought "I just fisted my Irish red!" and had to laugh.

 

[Franco]

Awesome name for your homebrew btw..

 

[BBL_Brewer]

When I make wine there are earwigs, spiders, all kinds of $h** in there...you have no worries.

So that's where that earthy taste comes from.

 

[martinfan30]

Awesome name for your homebrew btw..

That's genius!!!!!! I will be making labels!!! "fisted irish red"!!!

 

[AdamPag]

Trollololol....

And yes, I just did that with my dunkel, grommet fell in and I ripped my damn shirt off like superman and reached in for it. Bottle up, tastes fine, HOWEVER, I did notice in fermentation bucket a little hair or 2 floating on the top. Its comforting to know that there's a little piece of me in every bottle.