Ignore it. Ignore sanitation. Ignore time periods. ignore the beer which is screaming to be bottled or keged. Just walk by the 5 gallon batch of beer every single day. It will be there tomorrow.
I made a batch of Copper ale in early November. And left it in primary. This isn't the first batch I have hedged on. I have been getting careless the last few batches and have not been terribly successful. Nothing undrinkable, but not good quality beer. In the past, I had made some really good beer without going crazy with sanitation. just a quick rinse with bleach water then rinse with clear water and things were turning out great.......until that Belgian that had a slightly smoky flavor.......but let me come back to the copper ale. Today I decided to move it to keg and wet hop it and force carb for a superbowl party. Hydrometer showed it had fully converted sugars to alchohol. Then I tasted it. IT was like ltrying to drink a 9 volt battery. Sour doesn't even begin to cover it. I will be pouring it all out onto the compost pile tomorrow morning. I'm afraid it will kill my septic tank if I pour it down the drain.

Saturday I am going to pull all my equipment and disinfect it completely. Not sure if I will try to brew this weekend or not. This is a lesson I could have lived without.

whaaa... that is a very sad story... I'm gonna go cry in my beer

Sounds like your down a little WCD, I get like that once in a while, sounds like your either real busy or maybe having a little bad luck. I would just try on regrouping yourself and start all over. That's one reason why I do a lot of one gallon batches, got another one going now, taste testing is great, always something to learn, learn alot from these threads. And of course practice does make perfect. I remember my first brew.........crappy..!!!!!! but now, I just brewed a (I call it "Buster Brown Ale" that I think would be able to enter in a brew contest. I would get rid of the bleach. regroup, and brew a winner.
Kurt, like that gonna cry stuff........hahahaha..

Ahhhh, but one you will not easily forget either WoodChuck...

WCD what you don't need is coddling and back pats and oh regroup etc... What you need is a good homebrew to breakyour streak... Additionally you need a good ass kicking for ignoring your honorable homebrew duties and tasks. Shame on you...

That's great I like that BeerCzar, I couldn't of said it better, I"m still laughing. right on.

I think WCD needs a hug.

I rolled with this lax attitude a few times, and paid the price. Beer was ok, but definitely not great.

I started with this attitude.........until I made a batch that tasted like I was drinking a freshly opened bottle of canned corn..........BLUCK!! Heavy duty sanitation since.

Well I'm back at it today. Boiling right now. Being much more careful today.

I havelearned that sanitization is not something to skimp on. I don't think letting it sit a while is too detrimental, but killing all the little bugs is very important

Ask BB...LOL ?