re: Home brew (novice) question

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Not ruined. It'll be fine. It's really hard to mess up a beer.

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That set up is called a blowoff tube. Thats the way I ferment all my beer.....except instead of water I use sanitizer in a small bucket (actually an old Oxyclean plastic container) and I clip the tube to the side of the small bucket with a binder clamp (paper clamp).