Ice pack leaked

[Shoultzy]

First attempt at brewing.
Don't have a wart chiller and ice bath was taking 30+ minutes to cool.

Thought I would sanitize an ice pack(The ones that have like 20 ice cubes connected and the package is blue) So I sanitized the whole pack for 1 minute. and dropped it in the wort. Got it down to 74, when I went to take out the ice pack I realized that one of the pockets that hold the water was filled with some of my wort.

Now I'm not sure if there was already a hole before I put it in the sanitizer or if it popped when I put it into the wort.

But if that water got into the wort, could that have ruined my first batch?
From what I read online.

This is what I found about ice packs(it wasn't a gel pack)

An ice pack or gel pack is a portable plastic sac filled with water, or refrigerant gel or liquid. For use the contents are frozen in a freezer. Both ice and other non-toxic refrigerants (mostly water) can absorb a considerable amount of heat before they warm above 0 °C, due to the high latent heat of fusion of water.

 

[tgolanos]

I'd toss it and brew again. They say that the refrigerent is non-toxic but I can't imagine it's good to ingest it.

You don't actually have to chill your wort- look into the no-chill method. Tons of us on here do it. It could save you water and, in your case, you're not adding anything to the beer to that could be detrimental.

 

[Transamguy77]

Well if it's only a few ounces you might be ok, it's gonna be your call.

Before I had a wort chiller I went and bought cheap sandwich containers and made big blocks of ice and put them in a 18 gallon bin and used that as my ice bath. I have done the no chill method a few times with good results.

 

[Shoultzy]

Thanks guys, I'm going to definetly give it a chance.