Marty-Mart
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Hi, this is a bit of a long story but I need to get it off my chest and there is question at the end which I would grateful of some replies.
I have just had the most unlucky thing happen to me. The wort had been in the fermenter for about a week and I decided that I was going to take a gravity reading just to see how it was going. So when I went over to the fermenting bucket and twisted the tap around to open it up all of a sudden beer started leaking out of the tap at the sides. I was like "oh ****, I must've untwisted the tap accidentally on the inside", so I ran to get some santiser as quick as I could and ran over to the sink to wash my left arm and sanatise it, thinking that I was gonna be able to save my beer, which was slowly leaking out all over the place, by dunking my hand into the fermenter and tightening the nut of the tap on the inside. Unfortunately for me this wasn't what had happened, as I soon realised after dunking my hand in there. What had actually happened, and I don't know how the hell this happened, is that the freaking tap had actually broken. The tube with the thread on it had just broken off completely at the nut. I have no idea how I did this, the only thing I can think is that I must have put too much pressure on it when I tightened it up initially. So anyway, before I dunked my arm in there to fix it the thing was hanging on by a thread still which luckily prevented it from falling off completely, which would have meant a waterfall of beer all over my bedroom floor. However my attempt to fix things by tightening the nut on the other side made the thing break off entirely and at that point beer did start to gush out everywhere but since I was right there at that moment I had time to put my hand over the hole which gave me a few seconds to think. Luckily the secondary fermenter was set up with a tap in the bottom but it was on the other side of the room, so I had to somehow pick up the fermenter while keeping my palm over the hole where the tap used to be and walk over to the other bucket. I managed to do this without hardly spilling any wort and when I got to the secondary fermenter the only option I had was to hold the fermenter over the secondary, remove my hand from the hole and let the wort pour into the secondary from a height, aerating it completely. I imagine that my beer is ****ed now and I would like a second opinion.
On the plus side, I did manage to sanitise my hands before I put them into the wort, but, while I did sanitise the secondary fermenter on the same day that I sanitised the fermenter and other equipment, it had been lying there for a week uncovered so god knows what kind of gunk has managed to get in there in that time.
On the not so plus side, I image that my beer is going to be oxidised to ****, as the only thing I could do was let the wort fall into the secondary fermenter from a height which would have aerated it completely.
I cannot believe that the tap just broke like that. I'm so lucky that it didn't come off completely while I was in the bathroom washing and sanitising my arm as I would now be mopping up 23 litres of beer from the floor, I am also lucky that the other tap was set up on the secondary fermenter or else I would not have been able to put the tap on it with only one hand while simultaneously trying to prevent the wort from escaping from the other fermenter and I would have had to just let the beer drain into the bath.
So anyway, my question is, would you agree that my beer is now ****ed? Will it get infected or be highly oxidized? Is it likely to taste like ****? The ingredients cost me about 100 dollars so it's such a waste if it's screwed now....
Thanks for listening!
I have just had the most unlucky thing happen to me. The wort had been in the fermenter for about a week and I decided that I was going to take a gravity reading just to see how it was going. So when I went over to the fermenting bucket and twisted the tap around to open it up all of a sudden beer started leaking out of the tap at the sides. I was like "oh ****, I must've untwisted the tap accidentally on the inside", so I ran to get some santiser as quick as I could and ran over to the sink to wash my left arm and sanatise it, thinking that I was gonna be able to save my beer, which was slowly leaking out all over the place, by dunking my hand into the fermenter and tightening the nut of the tap on the inside. Unfortunately for me this wasn't what had happened, as I soon realised after dunking my hand in there. What had actually happened, and I don't know how the hell this happened, is that the freaking tap had actually broken. The tube with the thread on it had just broken off completely at the nut. I have no idea how I did this, the only thing I can think is that I must have put too much pressure on it when I tightened it up initially. So anyway, before I dunked my arm in there to fix it the thing was hanging on by a thread still which luckily prevented it from falling off completely, which would have meant a waterfall of beer all over my bedroom floor. However my attempt to fix things by tightening the nut on the other side made the thing break off entirely and at that point beer did start to gush out everywhere but since I was right there at that moment I had time to put my hand over the hole which gave me a few seconds to think. Luckily the secondary fermenter was set up with a tap in the bottom but it was on the other side of the room, so I had to somehow pick up the fermenter while keeping my palm over the hole where the tap used to be and walk over to the other bucket. I managed to do this without hardly spilling any wort and when I got to the secondary fermenter the only option I had was to hold the fermenter over the secondary, remove my hand from the hole and let the wort pour into the secondary from a height, aerating it completely. I imagine that my beer is ****ed now and I would like a second opinion.
On the plus side, I did manage to sanitise my hands before I put them into the wort, but, while I did sanitise the secondary fermenter on the same day that I sanitised the fermenter and other equipment, it had been lying there for a week uncovered so god knows what kind of gunk has managed to get in there in that time.
On the not so plus side, I image that my beer is going to be oxidised to ****, as the only thing I could do was let the wort fall into the secondary fermenter from a height which would have aerated it completely.
I cannot believe that the tap just broke like that. I'm so lucky that it didn't come off completely while I was in the bathroom washing and sanitising my arm as I would now be mopping up 23 litres of beer from the floor, I am also lucky that the other tap was set up on the secondary fermenter or else I would not have been able to put the tap on it with only one hand while simultaneously trying to prevent the wort from escaping from the other fermenter and I would have had to just let the beer drain into the bath.
So anyway, my question is, would you agree that my beer is now ****ed? Will it get infected or be highly oxidized? Is it likely to taste like ****? The ingredients cost me about 100 dollars so it's such a waste if it's screwed now....
Thanks for listening!