Sucked non-sanitized tap water through blowoff tube

[Lars Bars]

Hi everyone,

I have a hoppy red I just brewed and fermented for about 6 days. I transferred it today and forgot to remove the blowoff tube from the caraffe I was using. I had tap water in there that didn't have any star san in it. It sucked around 8-12oz of water into the beer. The beer was around 7% when this happened and fermentation had slowed significantly. The water still looked clear minus some small little things that came through the tube. Does anyone have an intuition around what's likely to happen to the beer? Is it likely a waste?

Thanks in advance for any advice

 

[Sammy86]

Hi everyone,

I have a hoppy red I just brewed and fermented for about 6 days. I transferred it today and forgot to remove the blowoff tube from the caraffe I was using. I had tap water in there that didn't have any star san in it. It sucked around 8-12oz of water into the beer. The beer was around 7% when this happened and fermentation had slowed significantly. The water still looked clear minus some small little things that came through the tube. Does anyone have an intuition around what's likely to happen to the beer? Is it likely a waste?

Thanks in advance for any advice

Relax, the beer will be fine. People use top up water all the time pre-fermentation and don't get infections.

My only question is why transfer to a secondary? You can leave it on the yeast cake for 14-21 days and package. Less oxygen=more hoppy and better beer!

 

[Lars Bars]

Awesome thanks for the insight!

As for secondary I was going back and forth in my mind but had heard its best to get the beer off of hops between 3-5 days and I dry hopped at 3 days. I purged with co2 so in theory should be ok. Im still learning and experimenting. I put around 6 ounces of dry hops in on day 3. Trying to clone blazing world from modern times.

 

[Sammy86]

Awesome thanks for the insight!

As for secondary I was going back and forth in my mind but had heard its best to get the beer off of hops between 3-5 days and I dry hopped at 3 days. I purged with co2 so in theory should be ok. Im still learning and experimenting. I put around 6 ounces of dry hops in on day 3. Trying to clone blazing world from modern times.

Just some food for thought...by day 10-14 the beer should be completely done fermenting. Did you dry hop early to get biotransformation?

If not, I would recommend waiting to dry hop until day 10...you can leave the dry hops up to 7 days then package.

 

[Lars Bars]

Yeah. It was to try and get bio-fermentation again cause I heard that makes for better hops flavors. Most of my plans for brewing are a hodge podge of random things i hear on homebrew youtube videos and sometimes a little contradictory .

So you'd basically leave it in primary until day 10ish and then add hops then package on day 17. Ill try that next time.

One other question id have (and really appreciate your help and advice here) is i'm using the SS brewbucket. I'm curious if there's enough room in that cone to trap everything even after 17 days of settling? It seems with a carboy its easy because you'd just pull from right above wherever the yeast cake + hops are but with a conical there's potential it will pass the line of the spout?