Someone else has done this

[skidkid267]

Decided to be impatient with my chilling of an IPA yesterday and threw a sanitized bottle of frozen water in the pot while also using my immersion chiller. Problem is I think there was still some of the glue left to fasten the label left on the bottle. I fastened a sanitized hop straining bag on the end of the hose into the carboy when I transferred, pitched a healthy starter at the correct 70 deg temp and when I checked this morning the batch is chugging away 12-16 hrs after pitching. I hope the yeast likes glue!

Has anyone else made this mistake and if so how did it turn out? The fact that a healthy looking fermentation is happening is, I think, a good sign. At least the "additive" hasn't precluded fermentation.

 

[paulster2626]

I usually just sniff it, but I guess glue in your beer would work. It'll be fine.

 

[dcHokie]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

 

[dcHokie]

Skid, my highly uneducated guess (backed up by no science whatsoever) is that even if the wort was hot enough to melt the glue off the bottle, that once the wort had cooled the glue would recoagulate in some capacity and fall out based on its weight. Meaning, I don’t think it would have liquefied and stayed in solution. In which case, you’ll just have a little hunk of glue down at the bottom of your fermentor in the trub pile. You could probably scrape the glue off a bottle and eat it with no ill effects anyway. As paulster said, it should be fine.

 

[khnkri]

I did this accidentally on one of the 3 extract brews I've done so far ... and that was the one that turned out the best.

That said, I think I'll try to avoid doing it again

 

[drainbamage]

Skid, my highly uneducated guess (backed up by no science whatsoever) is that even if the wort was hot enough to melt the glue off the bottle, that once the wort had cooled the glue would recoagulate in some capacity and fall out based on its weight. Meaning, I don’t think it would have liquefied and stayed in solution. In which case, you’ll just have a little hunk of glue down at the bottom of your fermentor in the trub pile. You could probably scrape the glue off a bottle and eat it with no ill effects anyway. As paulster said, it should be fine.

^ This. Even at ale brewing temps, I'm pretty sure that little bit of glue would re-harden and settle out with the rest of your trub. No worries. If you're still paranoid, put a strainer on the end of your siphon and rack to another container before bottling.

 

[Lucky_Chicken]

Skid, my highly uneducated guess (backed up by no science whatsoever) is that even if the wort was hot enough to melt the glue off the bottle, that once the wort had cooled the glue would recoagulate in some capacity and fall out based on its weight. Meaning, I don’t think it would have liquefied and stayed in solution. In which case, you’ll just have a little hunk of glue down at the bottom of your fermentor in the trub pile. You could probably scrape the glue off a bottle and eat it with no ill effects anyway. As paulster said, it should be fine.

+1 as long as the bottle was sanatized you should be fine.

Let us know how it turns out!