bottling disaster?

[heftyporker]

Hi everyone!
I've just been completing my second brew. It was a Brewferm Kriek (cherry beer). Anyway, I think I messed up...5 times! Tell me your thoughts!
Firstly when I went away so it was sat in the primary fermenter for 12 days.
Secondly I transferred it to a secondary fermenter, but was going away again so I left it for 5 days instead of adding sugar there and then and bottling it up.
Thirdly, not only that but i put beer finings into it - which i since read can mess the secondary fermentation up.
Fourth, when I siphoned it out a load went into my mouth which shocked me and it ended up then spilling from my mouth into the fermenter. (i know! Pretty disgusting!)
And finally, when I put the required amount of sugar in today before bottling it (100g) I was concerned that I'd not put enough in so put a half teaspoon in each bottle when i bottled it.

Soooo! What are my chances of ruining my beer?!?!?!!?!!!!
:mrgreen: :sick:

 

[Good Ed]

1st & 2nd; you'll be fine

3rd; not sure about the finings (never used them myself), which may have dropped the yeast out, you might have to leave it longer to condition

4th; try to swallow next time

5th; assuming a 23L brew length, might be a bit fizzy, depending on your preference and above, but shouldn't have created bottle bombs. Leave at room temperature for say 4-7 days then transfer to somewhere cooler to condition.

I'm sure your beer will be fine. :

 

[Hollow Legs]

Can't see anything wrong with that, you might be unlucky with spitting it out into the secondary?

concerned with why you wanted to add half a tsp per bottle though as you'd already worked out the correct amount to batch prime yes?...never done a cherry beer.

What did you bottle with Glass or PET?

 

[heftyporker]

Bugger! It was only a 10 or 12 litre kit (can't remember which)
Have I actually created dangerous beer?!
They're glass beer bottles zipped up in a suitcase with a blanket on top so if they do blow, the mess will be throw away! Is there any danger though?
Not really sure what I was thinking putting extra sugar in tbh...just didn't want flat beer, but now I'm worried!

 

[prolix]

open one everyday when they start getting fizzy chill them and drink rapidly :rofl:

 

[abeyptfc]

you should be fine, the finings part wont be that much of a bloomer, usually u add it a day or two before bottling. Ive done the syphoning/spitting back into FV before by mistake and my beer was fine, aslong as you don't have toxic badger breath!

had a wee laugh to myself while reading through the posts there - the topic starter is called 'hefty porker', and a guy called 'Good Ed' advised him to swallow instead of spitting next time. so the moral is for Good Ed, you must swallow instead of spitting from a hefty porker! :lol:

 

[heftyporker]

haha!
Thanks for your replies!
I can start looking fwd to drinking it now!
Ps - i don't think i have toxic badger breath....but you never know! :rofl:

thanks again!
hp