I am brewing an IPA and due to a large amount of foam at the start was using a blow off tube and bucket. When the foam died down I switched from the tube to a standard air lock. While dumping the bucket I noticed a mouse had smelled the sugars in the foam crawled up to investigate and fallen in to the bucket. It has been an exmouse for a number of days. The scientist in me says proceed - the airlock should keep out any mouse extract. The twelve year old girl in me says EWWWWW… :P Thoughts??
Understand the EEWWWW factor but I think you’ll be fine. The blow-off tube should be under positive pressure so nothing can leak back into the fermenter.
Paul
Haven’t heard a good EWWWWW story since someone dropped a full diaper into a fermenter. My guess is that everything is fine. Nothing from the offending mouse should have gone back up into the blowoff.
That’s funny! I don’t think it would hurt a thing with the blow off tube in use. I would even go so far as to name the beer, Mouse Lives Matter IPA.
I think you have finally invented a better mouse trap. I think I will fill a bucket with blow-off and see if I can get that pesky rodent
Just curious, did you have any starsan, cheap vodka etc. in your blow-off bucket?
Imagine your last drink being cheap vodka…
I hear if you bring the mouse to the Elsinore Brewery you can get free beer! ;D
Great allusion to a great movie, Strange Brew with Bob and Doug McKenzie.
No starsan or vodka in the blow off bucket. I ended up dumping it. :-[ Just didn’t want to think about that dead mouse floating in the bucket every time I drank one. 
Any big city morgue will have several drawers filled with homeless alcoholics whose last drink was cheap vodka. 
And I even bet one of their names is “Mouse”.