Stuck stopper, help!

[drunami]

OK folks. So I was just taking a gravity reading of a beer in my glass carboy. While putting the airlock back in and trying to get it snug, I accidentally pushed the rubber stopper all the way through the neck of the carboy. When I pulled it out, the airlock came up, but no stopper. So now I have a stopper floating in my beer.

Sadly this isn't the first time it's happened to me, but every other time it's been with a bucket, not a carboy. Anyone have any advice on getting a stopper out of a carboy?

 

[phug]

Wait til you're done and have racked out if that carboy, then use the tea towel trick to get it out

 

[Gavin C]

Done what you've done.

Don't worry about it. Easy fix after you package the beer.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL1ovAYtKuQ[/ame]

 

[drunami]

yes. obv you wait til the beer is done. what is the "tea towel trick"? similar to plastic bag video below?

also, will that bag trick work w a 5gal carboy?

 

[phug]

yes. obv you wait til the beer is done. what is the "tea towel trick"? similar to plastic bag video below?

also, will that bag trick work w a 5gal carboy?

Similar in principle to that plastic bag trick. You stuff one end of a tea towel in then roll the carbou to get the stopper resting on the towel then you pull it out.

 

[drunami]

cool, thanks. I'll give one of those a try after bottling.

 

[kh54s10]

If this is a solid rubber stopper, after you get it out, look at the size symbol on it and go buy yourself the next size up. I use #10 in my PET carboys and could not possibly push it inside.