greetings beersmith...
everything went well on my first ever brew - a porter.
until i put the wort into my glass carboy... when i put my sanitized cork/bung thingy into the bottle neck it kept slipping out... steep sided rubber cork which my beer supplier assured me was the correct size... anyway i kept pushing it down until i felt no more resistance but it was WAY below the bottle neck line and tho it is working fine (good seal) i have no idea how i'm going to get it out?!
does anyone know how to deal with this problem? how can i get the cork out when i'm ready to rack the beer into a second fermentation carboy?
and a final question...
how do i know when the wort/beer is ready to move to a second carboy then when do i know it is ready to rack into my corny keg?
thanks for any help...
a newbie...
tws
everything went well on my first ever brew - a porter.
until i put the wort into my glass carboy... when i put my sanitized cork/bung thingy into the bottle neck it kept slipping out... steep sided rubber cork which my beer supplier assured me was the correct size... anyway i kept pushing it down until i felt no more resistance but it was WAY below the bottle neck line and tho it is working fine (good seal) i have no idea how i'm going to get it out?!
does anyone know how to deal with this problem? how can i get the cork out when i'm ready to rack the beer into a second fermentation carboy?
and a final question...
how do i know when the wort/beer is ready to move to a second carboy then when do i know it is ready to rack into my corny keg?
thanks for any help...
a newbie...
tws