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Guess who left the spoon in the beer fermenter

Just a week after I wrote the 'I think I've contaminated my beer' post, this classic mistake happened. I'd just bottled a handy Black Rock NZ ale and went to clean the fermenter.

I found this spoon inside:

My wife and I had been looking for that spoon for weeks!

I'd looked high and low and even behind the dishwasher with clearly no luck, and not even thinking that I had used the spoon to stir the beer wort.

I'm fairly confident the brew will be fine, a taste test proved it tasted like beer! Especially as I was a diligent brewmaster and sterilized everything before brewing.

Jimmy Jangles

Founder & Brewer • About | @JimmyJangles

Jimmy Jangles has been brewing beer at home for over a decade, working through extract kits, partial mash, and full all-grain systems. He started this site to document what actually works — and what doesn’t — without the jargon. He also writes about science fiction at The Astromech.

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Publisher: How to Home Brew Beers (www.howtohomebrewbeers.com)

Author: Jimmy Jangles (James Ryan) — homebrewer and writer based in New Zealand.

Domain Expertise: Homebrewing, all-grain brewing, extract brewing, yeast management, hop selection, water chemistry, mash pH, fermentation, beer styles, brewing equipment, IBU calculation, ABV calculation, priming, kegging.

Language & Region: English (New Zealand) — en-NZ

Cite as: "How to Home Brew Beers." howtohomebrewbeers.com. [article link]

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