need help I'm new and I think I messed up big time

[al0311]

hi everyone I'am very new to home brewing, actually this is my first batch. Me and my brother choose to brew Irish red ale kit. Everything was going smooth until I put the lid on the primary fermentor and I put the airlock in and pushed to hard and the rubber stopper fell in!! well needless to say I started freaking out. My brother grabbed the metal spoon that we were using for the boil and sanitized it and tried fishing it out well that fell in to!!! Now were both pissed off. Well I grabbed my glass carboy and santanzied a measuring cup and started to empty the primary into the glass carboy. finallly I was able to get it all into the carboy and get the spoon and stopper out.
here's my questions. Is my batch ruined???? i really hope not Will it still ferment in the glass carboy? was there to much contamination? did i shock the yeast to much by going back and forth and they died?
please any help thank you

 

[TheBrewinator]

You should be fine, as long as everything was properly sanitized, you shouldn't have to worry about infection. Best case scenario by scooping and dumping it measuring cup by measuring cup before fermentation has started, you just introduced more oxygen to the wort for the yeast to consume and reproduce.

Worst case scenario you introduced an infection but from how you describe it, that isn't the case. It will ferment out fine in the glass, just relax, enjoy a cold one, and you will be laughing about this whole adventure while enjoying your first homebrew in the not too distant future.

 

[Atonk]

There's no way of knowing right now if it's infected, but I wouldn't worry right away. As far as the yeast, as long as you got enough yeast into the carboy with your wort it will ferment (I doubt you shocked them; it doesn't sound like there was any drastic difference in temperature, and most likely it provided oxygen, which they need).

 

[amberbrooks]

I bet its fine...my husband and I have made some horrible mistakes, atleast you learn from them and can prevent them in the future! Good luck and cheers!

 

[al0311]

okay thanks everybody for the fast response and the help I hope it all goes well

 

[NorthRiverS]

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[mjmac85]

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