Hey gang... brewed up an extract IPA a couple of weeks ago and installed a blowoff tube, as I always get a very vigorous fermentation and didn't want to blow the airlock off my carboy...
Anyway... long story short. Bottled the beer last night and am starting to clean up today. I never installed an air lock and just rolled with the blow off tube, since the krausen never made it to the top of the carboy. I initially put iodophore in the water and figured it should be good to go. Apparently didn't keep a close eye on it after that, assuming that would be sufficient to keep it pretty sterile.
Well... grabbed the pot that had the water in it and noticed it's got some sort of clear, sludgy stuff on the bottom and a couple of very, very small bits of what look to maybe be algae.
I tasted the gravity sample and it didn't really taste bad. Pretty strong and a little dry, as it was an OG 1.67 that finished at 1.012. Hoping that improves as it conditions in the bottles..
What do you think the chances are that any "bad bugs" made it into the batch? I'm a little worried I might have a whole batch of bottle bombs or mega gushers just fermenting away at this point.
Anyway... long story short. Bottled the beer last night and am starting to clean up today. I never installed an air lock and just rolled with the blow off tube, since the krausen never made it to the top of the carboy. I initially put iodophore in the water and figured it should be good to go. Apparently didn't keep a close eye on it after that, assuming that would be sufficient to keep it pretty sterile.
Well... grabbed the pot that had the water in it and noticed it's got some sort of clear, sludgy stuff on the bottom and a couple of very, very small bits of what look to maybe be algae.
I tasted the gravity sample and it didn't really taste bad. Pretty strong and a little dry, as it was an OG 1.67 that finished at 1.012. Hoping that improves as it conditions in the bottles..
What do you think the chances are that any "bad bugs" made it into the batch? I'm a little worried I might have a whole batch of bottle bombs or mega gushers just fermenting away at this point.