Left a hop sock in.

[voodoochild7]

I made my sam adams clone last night. After I pulled out the hop socks. I put the brew pot into a cold bath to cool. After cooling I pulled out the pot and poured it into the fermenter I noticed a large splash while pouring turns out one of the socks sank and I left it in the whole time it was cooling. I have no idea if it was the bittering, flavoring, or finishing. What's the scenarios here depending on what bag was left in.

 

[El Pistolero]

Shouldn't matter at all.

 

[DeRoux's Broux]

yea, you'll be fine. it was sterilized with the boil....

 

[voodoochild7]

Not worried so much about sanitation as far as flavor.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

I usually don't remove mine until the wort is cool. Learned that because I kept burning my fingers. When I learned to use tongs the hop bags dripped on my feet and burned them. So now I just wait until everything is cool...haven't noticed any ill effects.

 

[El Pistolero]

Most of us leave our hops in until after the wort is cooled anyway...once the wort starts cooling it isn't extracting any more flavor or aroma from the hops.

 

[DeRoux's Broux]

try throwing them in lose too. you'll get better extraction of the oils without them being all bundled together.

 

[Rhoobarb]

Yep, leave them in during wort cooling. It won't affect the beer.

 

[McCall St. Brewer]

I wouldn't worry. I pushed a rubber stopper into my carboy in my last batch. When I bottled it and got the thing out, the stopper smelled like beer, but the stopper did not affect the taste of the beer.