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--- brewing:batches:8 [2025/10/19 12:17] – [Process] tailkinker
+++ brewing:batches:8 [2025/11/10 22:02] (current) – [Process] tailkinker
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 **11 October 2025**:  1.014 SG.\\
 **12 October 2025**:  1.014 SG.\\
-**19 October 2025**:  Bottled.
+**19 October 2025**:  Bottled.\\
+**10 November 2025**:  Sampled it.  It had soured badly.  At some stage, some contamination must have crept in.  Ended up dumping 20 litres of product.  Curses!
+**Diagnosis**:  I left the blow-off tube in during the entire ferment, and it became a vector, rather than a barrier, for wild yeast.  Going forward, *always* switch out the blow-off tube for an airlock after 48 hours.