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Thursday, August 21, 2008

I'm having problems with my bung hole

I'm having problems with my bung hole...
I figured this post title would get your attention, but really, I had some trouble with my bung hole today... Has this ever happened to you?

Note the Daddy's guide to be useful during pregnancy used to tilt the primary...
Fnally a good use for that book...

There I was, minding my own business, nearly done racking my Franken-beer (Oktoberfest inspired Ale, turned Altbier) to my newly purchased secondary, and then it happened. I was pushing the bung that came with the 5 gallon carboy into the opening, and then pop! Before you know it, the bug is plummeting to it's untimely death in the murky depths of the carboy. Either I don't know my own strength, or I'm having some difficulties with my bung hole. OK, sorry, I just couldn't resist saying that one more time...

I had no choice, I quickly plopped the better bung (this one has that lip on top) from my primary into the sanitizer filled bucket I had standing by, and used it to cap off the secondary.

So, what's your take on all of this?
  • Has this ever happened to you before?
  • Will I ever be able to get the other bung out of the carboy? And if so how?
  • Will this debacle destroy my beer, leaving a rubbery, bung hole flavor to the brew?
  • Would leaving the bung in there kill future brews?
  • Will the drama surrounding this batch ever end?
at 9:47 PM
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4 comments:

  1. Wow. That's an issue. That's never happened to us before. Not sure you are going to get that out of your carboy.
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  2. This is so typical "me" if it can go wrong it will go wrong, Murphy's law has nothing on Bryon's law...

    But I did some searching and found this thread on beer advocate, regarding problems other folks have had with their "bung holes", apparently it's not as odd, nor is it as big a deal as I thought...
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  3. I haven't had it happen to me yet. But I have noticed a difference in the size of the bung hole on different carboys.

    A trick that works to get a cork out of a wine bottle is putting a plastic bag in there and getting the stopper near the mouth of the bottle, blowing up the plastic bag and pulling the bag out with the stopper.

    Here is a link to a video about it
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  4. Andy, I saw something similar and tried to emulate it. I couldn't get that trick to work in the carboy.
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