Is it ruined?

[KoedBrew]

Uh Oh? So I made a 3 gallon batch of Blackberry Apple Cider this past week I call it Cell Phone Cider.. With Safale S-04 yeast.
30ozs of frozen Blackberries and 2.75 gallons of pressed apple juice.

Well it was fermenting away for a couple days, Last night I looked at it and it seemed ok.
This morning I checked it and the Bung and airlock were tossed out of it and some blackberries were scattered in the area.

I quickly rigged up a blow-off system for it and went off to work.

Now do you think the time that the 2 inch hole of my glass fermenter was exposed that it got infected? Or do you think it was pumping enough CO2?
It is in my basement in an unused shower.

 

[aekdbbop]

i think your fine.. there was enough co2 to keep anything bad away

 

[Displaced MassHole]

i think your fine.. there was enough co2 to keep anything bad away

+1


I've had the same thing happen with a few beers of mine.

 

[LVBen]

RDWHAHB! There are people that take off the entire lids of their buckets over and over again during fermentation and don't seem to have any issues. I doubt the small hole is a problem. There is probably plenty of escaping CO2 keeping stuff from hurting your beer.

 

[ellicit]

I've had several of mine that blow the Carboy cap off and I haven't caught them for days. As long as the fermentation is still active you should be fine, I haven't had a problem with any of mine yet

 

[KoedBrew]

Thanks, That is what I was hoping to hear

 

[ellicit]

Also you could also run some tubing from your primary over and down to a bucket with water in it. That way it would catch the run off and still restrict bacteria from entering.