Infection risk high?

[Jimmy90]

Hi guy's, I'm fairly new to brewing so I'm starting with some small 1 gallon brews to get a feel for things before moving to bigger batches. Anyways last week I brewed a all grain batch and when I was transferring from stock pot to fermenter I noticed a tea spoon in the bottom of my stock pot of wort!! My uncle was around doing some work and he must have found it funny to drop a tea spoon in! It was a clean spoon and I transferred as normal! A week into fermentation and I'm hoping things will be ok, they seem to look ok. What are the chances of picking up a infection in this circumstance? I'm slightly worried that's all. Cheers, Jimmy

 

[robster62]

If the teaspoon was put in during the boil I would think anything on it would have been killed off.

 

[Jimmy90]

It was after the boil, which has got me slightly worried. I'm not sure if he stirred his brew with it then dropped it in!! I was fuming

 

[Redwulf]

Chances are its fine, if the wort was still hot it would be fine, if the spoon had just stirred a hot cup of tea or had just come out of the dishwasher then chances are its okay.

 

[moto748]

I'd say the chances it will be fine are 99.99%.

Really, don't worry about things like that.

 

[Hoppyland]

Agreed. Chances of a problem are very low indeed.

 

[Flan]

Well you know what to do when he comes sniffing for a bottle or two after you’ve finished it.

 

[Jimmy90]

O I'll tell him where to go haha. Thanks for the comments guys, much appreciated!

 

[DocAnna]

You'd know by now if it was a problem, a week in and it would be smelling strongly of vinegar or smelling off it was infected.