BobSacamano
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Soooo, on my first BIAB try, I did everything pretty close to 100% correct. It is a Chocolate Stout, tasted great right after the boil. A much more gratifying experience than my two previous extract brews. Anyway, I have everything ready to go, take a gravity reading in the fermenter (1.055), and go grab the lid. After I seal it up, I push the rubber grommet all the way through the plastic lid with with air lock!!! Now, I freak out about what to do ... so I find an extra lid and find that it is also missing the little rubber grommet. I then try to fish it out with my long metal spoon, but obviously this turns out to be futile. I then proceed to wash my arm and sanitize it with the star-san spray bottle I had prepared. I was able to fish it out pretty quickly. This was a week and a half ago and now I am getting close to taking a gravity reading. I dont want to open the lid and find it contaminated. Has anyone had this problem before??? Am I screwed or should I have nothing to worry about?