By accident I pushed the rubber stopper that holds the airlock into my glass
carboy. The wine has another seven days before I draw it out and bottle it.
I hastily cobbed the top of the carboy with saran wrap and a rubber band and
pushed my airlock into that and it will probably work just as well. My
stupid question is: Will the rubber stopper have any effect on the wine? I
sanitized it right before I accidently pushed it into the carboy. Stupid
question number two: Anyone have an idea how to get it out once I empty the
carboy of wine? Oh well, live and learn!

bend the end of a coat hanger so it will fit through the hole in the bung,
but still "grab" the edge once it's through.
After you get it out, hang it on the wall for future problems


--
Roger & Lynda

"Douglas Gaulin" wrote in message
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By accident I pushed the rubber stopper that holds the airlock into my
glass
carboy. The wine has another seven days before I draw it out and bottle
it.
I hastily cobbed the top of the carboy with saran wrap and a rubber band
and
pushed my airlock into that and it will probably work just as well. My
stupid question is: Will the rubber stopper have any effect on the wine?
I
sanitized it right before I accidently pushed it into the carboy. Stupid
question number two: Anyone have an idea how to get it out once I empty
the
carboy of wine? Oh well, live and learn!

Douglas Gaulin wrote:

By accident I pushed the rubber stopper that holds the airlock into my glass
carboy. The wine has another seven days before I draw it out and bottle it.
I hastily cobbed the top of the carboy with saran wrap and a rubber band and
pushed my airlock into that and it will probably work just as well. My
stupid question is: Will the rubber stopper have any effect on the wine? I
sanitized it right before I accidently pushed it into the carboy. Stupid
question number two: Anyone have an idea how to get it out once I empty the
carboy of wine? Oh well, live and learn!

The stopper should not affect the wine at all. Buy another stopper
ASAP and use that instead of the saran wrap, why take chances with your
wine if a new stopper is less than a dollar?
Now for the removal part. once the wine has been racked out of the
carboy, empty out the lees as well (you don't have to but it does make
it easier to see what you are doing and won't cause as much of a mess),
turn the carboy upside down, the stopper should fall down to the neck
(some water might help, but it gets messy again). Now before you go and
do this you must make a special tool out of a piece of wire (a wire coat
hanger should work), it should have a hook bent into the end with the
hook small enough to go through the hole in the stopper. Insert wire
tool into carboy, through the stopper hole, hook the far side of the
stopper, pull out. Becareful, glass carboys do break if roughly handled,
water makes glass slippery.
Ken

Happens to me more than I like to admit.

I don't try the caothanger bit. Get a pair of needle nose pliers, put
one "jaw" into the hole of the bung grab the outside of it with the
other, squeeze, pull, PRESTO! out it comes.

Won't hurt the wine at all, not to worry.

Dave Stacy

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 02:10:12 GMT, "Douglas Gaulin"
wrote:

By accident I pushed the rubber stopper that holds the airlock into my glass
carboy. The wine has another seven days before I draw it out and bottle it.
I hastily cobbed the top of the carboy with saran wrap and a rubber band and
pushed my airlock into that and it will probably work just as well. My
stupid question is: Will the rubber stopper have any effect on the wine? I
sanitized it right before I accidently pushed it into the carboy. Stupid
question number two: Anyone have an idea how to get it out once I empty the
carboy of wine? Oh well, live and learn!