So in my rush (not sure why I was rushing, racking a mead to secondary is hardly a "no oxygen" siituation), I grabbed too small a bung. As I was sliding it in it popped below the rim. I tried to fish it out, but it fell into the wine (a mead).
So three questions:
1) will the bung effect the flavor of the wine? It's at about 1.04-1.05 currently and very slowly fermenting (mead).
2) if it will, what should I do? I don't have another carboy of the right size, I suppose I can rack to multiple smaller carboys, but I don't want to if it's not necessary.
3) either way, how do I eventually get the bung out?
It's not a silicone plug, it's a standard drilled plug...
EDIT TO ADD: the bung was soaked in a starsan solution for like a day, I'm not worried about surface bacteria or anything.
So three questions:
1) will the bung effect the flavor of the wine? It's at about 1.04-1.05 currently and very slowly fermenting (mead).
2) if it will, what should I do? I don't have another carboy of the right size, I suppose I can rack to multiple smaller carboys, but I don't want to if it's not necessary.
3) either way, how do I eventually get the bung out?
It's not a silicone plug, it's a standard drilled plug...
EDIT TO ADD: the bung was soaked in a starsan solution for like a day, I'm not worried about surface bacteria or anything.