Please Help a Newb!

[kosmokramer]

First off, hows everyone doin... been lurking around for a bit but just started to actually brew. I am on my second kit from more beer, galaxy extra pale ale, and just after i put it into my fermentor i used the 12 inch glass thermometer from more beer to check the temp. Well im sure you know where this is going, my hands were wet with star san and the thermometer fell into the glass carboy and the tip broke. Is this batch still good? i pitched the yeast anyways but rather smeely all nice and hoppy it smells like kerosene,,, just happened about an hour ago. Should i through the batch away? or should i ride it out?

 

[Brew_4iT]

There was a thread not too long ago about this, I believe they don't use mercury anymore for most thermometers so thats not the worry... however drinking shards of glass is... I wouldn't risk that.

 

[kosmokramer]

i read a couple of the other threads and they were all about floating thermometers, this is a regular thermo and it does have so redish spots floating at the top, and smells funny

 

[scrambledegg81]

Give her the ol' heave-to. Better to be on the safe side than risk turning your small intestine into swiss cheese.

 

[beerandloathinginaustin]

Keg it and let a few local bums try it out. Tag them if possible. Monitor their progress. (Be sure to diversify the geographical locations of your test subjects though so The Man doesn't try to hold you down when a cluster of vagrants dies of mercury poisoning.)

I find a paintball gun to be most effective for tagging. The big thing is remembering to put in different color paintballs for tagging a new bum. I goofed up on that a couple times in the beginning and felt like such a degenerate.

 

[benstetson]

kosmokramer, that's a tough one.

"In most cases, the red stuff you see in a thermometer is either alcohol or mercury." http://ask.yahoo.com/20070315.html

I would probably not drink it, for the future, I use a digital meat thermometer that I use only for beer.

 

[Brew_4iT]

Keg it and let a few local bums try it out. Tag them if possible. Monitor their progress. (Be sure to diversify the geographical locations of your test subjects though so The Man doesn't try to hold you down when a cluster of vagrants dies of mercury poisoning.)

I find a paintball gun to be most effective for tagging. The big thing is remembering to put in different color paintballs for tagging a new bum. I goofed up on that a couple times in the beginning and felt like such a degenerate.

LOL call it the Merkegee experiments

 

[RobWalker]

Buy another one and drink the red liquid. If you get drunk, its probably okay. If your arm falls off, it probably isn't.