Sharing my ******* mess up

[mrveeno]

I have this at the bottom of my 60 Qt Ice Cube cooler. It is PEX tubing and a large grain bag zip ties over the nipple. I get no grain at all, and it would be pretty much impossible to stop up. I put a plastic cutting board on top of it so the mash paddle doesn't grab anything. I also drilled holes in the lid bottom for sparging and run the sparge water into the top. When I had a round cooler for 5 gallon batches, I had a 6' coil of hard vinyl tubing with holes drilled in it.

 

[MagicMatt]

Well… I messed up but I’m pretty sure my beer is okay. I did a full mashed and when I was cleaning the grain from my tun, I found a rag under my mash tun! Ugh!

At this point I'm thinking, "So what? What does a rag being underneath your MLT have to do with anything?" It wasn't until I kept reading that I realized you mean IN your tun, not under it, lol.

So when I clean, I use PBW (1 tsp for a 10 gal)...

...I PBW the tun again (1 tsp - overkill, I know)...

I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but 1 tsp of PBW in 10 gallons of water is far from the manufacturer's recommendations. They recommend 1/2-1 oz per gallon for cleaning brewday equipment. Now while their numbers are likely a bit excessive, I would think that only 1 tsp in 10 gallons would do absolutely nothing at all. It's still essentially plain water.

I also noticed you said you use the PBW solution and then wipe dry. You should definitely be rinsing with plain water after using PBW, and then drying it.

 

[EMH5]

At this point I'm thinking, "So what? What does a rag being underneath your MLT have to do with anything?" It wasn't until I kept reading that I realized you mean IN your tun, not under it, lol.



I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but 1 tsp of PBW in 10 gallons of water is far from the manufacturer's recommendations. They recommend 1/2-1 oz per gallon for cleaning brewday equipment. Now while their numbers are likely a bit excessive, I would think that only 1 tsp in 10 gallons would do absolutely nothing at all. It's still essentially plain water.

I also noticed you said you use the PBW solution and then wipe dry. You should definitely be rinsing with plain water after using PBW, and then drying it.

Sorry I was unclear - yeah, I use 1-2 tsp of PBW in the tun with about 5 gallons of water to clean. not much, definitely not to PBW recommendations but the solution still works and makes the inside spotless. I do rinse with water after.

Other than a horrible efficiency, the beer tasted fine from the bucket, 5.9% Citra Centennial IPA. It's kegged now and will be ready in about 10 days.

 

[MagicMatt]

If that's the case then I'd say you have nothing to worry about from a contamination standpoint. That small amount of PBW in that much water should essentially be undetectable in the water itself, much less as residue on a rag.

 

[EMH5]

Just to update- this beer turned out great!
Thanks for all the advice and help.