Beer Forum

rubber stopper, that is...

I brewed 10 gallons of the B3 APA2 recipe last Sunday, and had room for only one carboy in the temp. controlled fridge - that one started up after about 24 hour lag time, and the fermentation lock and rubber stopper popped out. I cleaned it off, and was putting in another stopper (that I sprayed heavily with starsan) with a blow-off tube when the damn thing popped right into the neck of the carboy! I tried to jimmy it out with a stailess wire, and it dropped right down into the high krauseny wort...

Has this happened to anyone else? What are the odds of my having just contaminated my beer??

should I transfer this wort to another carboy or should I just wait and see what happened?

hmmm

I think everyone in the history of brewing has done this at least once! All I can say is Relax, Don't worry have a homebrew. It will be fine and you can fish it out after you rack your beer off.

+1, I've done it, beer turned out fine.

After I it finished fermenting and I racked out of the carboy I used a wire clothes hanger with a v bend in the end. I was able to slip it through the hole (pressing the bung into the bottom edge) then I just pulled it out. Just like gaffing a fish!

What BRB said.

chrishw wrote: I was able to slip it through the hole (pressing the bung into the bottom edge) then I just pulled it out.

You said "edge"