disclaimer.. newbie here...
I've just finished crash cooling my first batch of pressure fermented lager. i checked after about 24 hours and i found i'd accidentally put my spunding valve on the liquid out post of my fermzilla, so about half of my brew had made it's way out of the fermentation vessel and into the bottom of the chest freezer i bought as a fermentation chamber.
Because it's my first brew and was likely going to make mistakes i decided to pump it back in to the fermzilla and carry on with the brew and go through all of the process as i'd likely make more mistakes along the way.
so a few days later when the specific gravity checks had settled i crash cooled the lager down to about 2 degrees, no off smells or tastes at that point. so that was nearly 2 days ago, the lager actually tastes really nice, carbonation levels are good and it seems like i've got a very drinkable lager on my hands.
i'm very aware that the wort will have been exposed to oxygen during the spunding valve debacle and will probably spoil.. on the off chance that it doesn't I'm curious about what sort of timeline i'd be looking at before i'm able to say that somehow i've dodged a bullet and got a good batch of lager, or how long before any issues with an infection would take to present.
i'm going to be bottling soon to get some practice in there (and no doubt make some more mistakes), but i don't see any sense in bottling the entire batch if it's going to spoil.
so how long should i wait before i can have some confidence that the lager will be ok?
I've just finished crash cooling my first batch of pressure fermented lager. i checked after about 24 hours and i found i'd accidentally put my spunding valve on the liquid out post of my fermzilla, so about half of my brew had made it's way out of the fermentation vessel and into the bottom of the chest freezer i bought as a fermentation chamber.
Because it's my first brew and was likely going to make mistakes i decided to pump it back in to the fermzilla and carry on with the brew and go through all of the process as i'd likely make more mistakes along the way.
so a few days later when the specific gravity checks had settled i crash cooled the lager down to about 2 degrees, no off smells or tastes at that point. so that was nearly 2 days ago, the lager actually tastes really nice, carbonation levels are good and it seems like i've got a very drinkable lager on my hands.
i'm very aware that the wort will have been exposed to oxygen during the spunding valve debacle and will probably spoil.. on the off chance that it doesn't I'm curious about what sort of timeline i'd be looking at before i'm able to say that somehow i've dodged a bullet and got a good batch of lager, or how long before any issues with an infection would take to present.
i'm going to be bottling soon to get some practice in there (and no doubt make some more mistakes), but i don't see any sense in bottling the entire batch if it's going to spoil.
so how long should i wait before i can have some confidence that the lager will be ok?