Chance of infection? immersion chiller mishap!

[Braufather]

In my last brew i forget to take the connection of the outflow hose connected to the immersion chiller. As such the pressure forced the hose of the chiller and some water went straight into the brew. i did this twice before working out what the problem was! so on the plus side the water was around 95C so that would help but the inside of that hose has never been santitised in its life so got knows what was there. i guess maybe 50-100 ml could have got in. most of it went on the floor.

so what do people feel the chance for infection will be? it was a punk clone and was fermented at 19c for two weeks, dry hopped for three days then kegged a week ago and seems a bit on the bitter side.

 

[Ben034]

If the wort was still hot when it happened, I would say the chances of infection were very small.

 

[Braufather]

around 95C so hopefully ok then.

 

[Brianbrewed]

Happened to me before.
The beer was fine.

 

[Martybhoy]

I've had a similar thing happen to me, twice. The heat from the wort softens the silicon tube which connects to the copper piping. I now keep a wrench on hand to quickly tighten the connection if it happens again. Nowadays it's mostly a drip that escapes, and I'm pretty diligent about keeping the drips out of the wort until I tighten the hose connection.

Oh, and my couple of brews where the water from the chiller did get into the wort were fine .

 

[GerritT]

The brew probably will be fine, and you should (and probably will from now on) cleanse that bit of equipment once in a while. Just in case.

 

[MyQul]

If you think pasteurisation of milk is 72C and held at that temp for 15 seconds you'll be fine. Infection is a race between bacteria and yeast to colonise the wort. However, brewers yeast is specially adapted to wort over thousands (millions?) of generations. So it's like me on my recumbent vs Chris Froome. Its only if Froome gets a punture do I stand any chance of winning

 

[Braufather]

Cheers chaps. Looks like I will be fine then.

 

[GerritT]

Cheers chaps. Looks like I will be fine then.

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