Newb mistake number 58

[WrkdbfGuy]

I won't even begin to describe the previous 57 bonehead mistakes.

I just got my wort boiled, transferred to primary, and pitched the yeast. Then I went to set up my blow off tube and the temperature probe for my STC1000. (Both are combined in one stopper). But the stupid thing went all the way through and fell into the wort. Stopper and probe and all.

I could transfer the wort again and pick it out of there I suppose. But I'm thinking I'll just leave it in there during primary fermentation.

Stupid Newb. [emoji32]

 

[Psylocide]

*ploink*



O.O



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*this is a dramatization, names have been changed to protect the innocent

 

[IDoBleedBrew]

It happens. My wife pushed the cork through on her first batch (a nut brown ale)... she left it and just called it "corky brown". Turned out great.

 

[TheHappyHopper]

lol. I did almost the same thing on a batch awhile back. I was using a bucket fermenter (I drilled the hole in the lid and added the grommet myself), and I guess I pushed the airlock in too hard and the grommet came out of place and fell into the beer. I tried fishing it out with a sanitized spoon, but I couldn't find it, so I just ended up leaving it through fermentation. The beer came out fine.

 

[David_Trucks]

Done it before, turned out to be the best beer I've made yet. Leave it in there, put in a new stopper, get it after you rack the beer into something else.

 

[MattyIce]

In a pinch, I siphoned with short hose that had a lot of curl to it. To keep it at the bottom of the receiving vessel, I used a hose clamp to attach a spoon to the end of the hose. Needless to say, the spoon did not stay attached. I dipped my arm in sanitizer and then reached into the beer to retrieve the spoon and clamp. No problems to speak of. The fact that it happened with a 13% barley wine may have helped cut back on the risk of infection :fro:

 

[JB_Brewing2]

My buddy had a stopper pop into the carboy like that and he just put another stopper in the top with an airlock. Beer turned out fine and we chuckle when we talk about his "Rubber Stopper Porter".