Help help help HAMMER OF THOR hop bag has burst and sunk

[RLGMIlson]

tried to take out brew bucket and it's split and sunk
What shall I do

I hope contents of bag will sink ??

I was hoping to bottle tonight .........

 

[nigelnorris]

If you have a spare put it over the [FV] end of a siphon tube and use that to do your bottling. That's how the Festival kits work, they come with a little filter bag so you can just chuck the hops in loose and filter them out at bottling time.

Even if you don't have a bag leave the hops to make sure that they've sunk and bottle anyway, most of the hop residue will stay in the bucket with all the other gunk.

 

[RLGMIlson]

If you have a spare put it over the [FV] end of a siphon tube and use that to do your bottling. That's how the Festival kits work, they come with a little filter bag so you can just chuck the hops in loose and filter them out at bottling time.

Even if you don't have a bag leave the hops to make sure that they've sunk and bottle anyway, most of the hop residue will stay in the bucket with all the other gunk.

Dya think I'll be ok to bottle in 24 hours time. ?

 

[IainM]

Don't worry. Good beer has come from far greater screw ups. Have you primed yet?

 

[pms67]

Probably be even better than how the instructions tell you to make it

 

[nigelnorris]

Dya think I'll be ok to bottle in 24 hours time. ?

I've made this kit more than once and it took three weeks to ferment out then another week of dry hopping. A few days either side makes no difference, there's no rush.

 

[The Idiot]

So a few hops fell in the beer? Panic not! Either put another hop bag over the end of the tube when siphoning or siphon to a bottling bucket via a sieve, or just let the debris drop out in the bottles.

I once was draining a fermentor into secondary and to get the last drops of beer off the yeast I propped one side of the fermentor up with an old (and I mean old, dog-eared and passed through many many hands) paperback. I accidentally knocked it into the full secondary bucket, and without thinking stuck my hand (and shirt sleeve) in to feel around and fetch it out.

Turned out to be a cracking beer! You might dispense with hop bags altogether after this one!!!

 

[Slid]

So a few hops fell in the beer? Panic not! Either put another hop bag over the end of the tube when siphoning or siphon to a bottling bucket via a sieve, or just let the debris drop out in the bottles.

I once was draining a fermentor into secondary and to get the last drops of beer off the yeast I propped one side of the fermentor up with an old (and I mean old, dog-eared and passed through many many hands) paperback. I accidentally knocked it into the full secondary bucket, and without thinking stuck my hand (and shirt sleeve) in to feel around and fetch it out.

Turned out to be a cracking beer! You might dispense with hop bags altogether after this one!!!

A brewed beer is remarkably resilient by the point of bottling.

I remember pouring dregs and dregs of dregs into smaller and smaller bottles with minimal sterilisation and it tasted fine, if a little "average".

All an experiment at the time, with "the resilience of a brewed beer".

My conclusion was that the sanitisation is "very important" up to pitching the yeast. Once the beer is done, as in -alcohol produced-, the sanitisation goes down to just "important" in the subsequent processes.