Hello all,
I am new to brewing and new to this forum. I searched around this site to see if other people have had a similar problem but I couldn't find anything. I just brewed my first batch of ale yesterday and have it in a 5 gal glass carboy. Everything went very well until the final step. When putting in the fermentation lock I pushed a tad to hard and pushed it almost through the neck of the carboy. I'm a knucklehead! It is sealed but sitting in there at an angle. I'm not sure I will be able to pull the rubber stopper out. Also I woke up this morning and fermentation has started and is going quite strong. I was hoping that the pressure might straighten up the stopper but now after reading some posts I'm wondering if I would be better off putting a blow off tube. So my question is should I try and pull the stopper out and if it does fall into the beer will it affect it? I'm also worried that I may get quite a mess if I don't use the blow off tube. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely
AP
I am new to brewing and new to this forum. I searched around this site to see if other people have had a similar problem but I couldn't find anything. I just brewed my first batch of ale yesterday and have it in a 5 gal glass carboy. Everything went very well until the final step. When putting in the fermentation lock I pushed a tad to hard and pushed it almost through the neck of the carboy. I'm a knucklehead! It is sealed but sitting in there at an angle. I'm not sure I will be able to pull the rubber stopper out. Also I woke up this morning and fermentation has started and is going quite strong. I was hoping that the pressure might straighten up the stopper but now after reading some posts I'm wondering if I would be better off putting a blow off tube. So my question is should I try and pull the stopper out and if it does fall into the beer will it affect it? I'm also worried that I may get quite a mess if I don't use the blow off tube. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely
AP