Beer Kit: Brewferm Tarwebier This was my first time using StarSan as it's hard to get in my neck of woods. Is this some ugly Krausen or contamination, if so what type? Is there any recovery from this, can I rack from underneath it, spray it with some StarSan? I stored the StarSan for a few days after cleaning bottles, before I reused it to clean my FV, I that that was okay to do? could this be the source …
I have a spray bottle filled with a diluted Star-San solution that I used infrequently. Now I'm back to using it on a regular basis and it has a strong scent that is reminiscent of Windex. Is it still safe to use? Could it just be reacting with the plastic of the bottle? The bottle is a standard all-purpose HPDE sprayer which should be fine. Edit: It's about a year old and the pH is reading quite high at 7-8.
As the coronavirus keeps spreading, I was wondering if we can use the sanitizers that we use in brewing for personal hygiene? I'm having difficulties finding sanitizers as everything is sold out here. Have any of you tested this?
I wonder if it is possible to transport Star San in checked luggage for an intercontinental flight? I plan to buy a couple of bottles in the US and fly back to Europe and I wonder if it's possible.
I've recently switched to Starsan from B-brite, and have had, shall we say, very tenacious krausens. I know that the Starsan foam isn't harmful to the beer, but it's foaming up in the carboy to the point where it pushes material up into the airlock. I've had to switch out airlocks a few times now to prevent a kaboom. It doesn't look like I'm getting more active fermentation, just that the bubbles in the krausen don't pop. It builds and …
So I just fermented a 80 Shilling and thought I would try cold crashing for the first time. I dropped it from mid 60's to 38 or so in a 24 hour period and it sucked about 4 cups of sanitizer up the blow off tube and into my 5 gallon batch. The sanitizer was the usual dilution to half ounce per 5 gallons. couple questions: Is the beer safe to drink? Can I re-pitch the yeast into another batch …
The 475ml package of Starsan has two openings as can be seen on this image . My question is to seek confirmation that the second opening is merely supposed as a measuring aid/help. An answer would clarify (i.e. from personal experience) that Starsan (as with the other sized bottles, is a "one component" sanitizer only and not as the second highlighted container suggests a "two component" thing.
I want to begin my first batch but I know sanitizing is really important and I don't want to make mistake about it, so I read How to brew - Everything you need to know to brew great beer every time and it is written about sanitizing with Star San: No-rinse. Can be used via immersion or spraying. Will sanitize clean surfaces with 30 sec. contact time. So, I went on Brouwland to make my order and I saw about …
What Ph level does Neale's Brewing Supplies sanitizer remain effective to? It has a similar ingredient list to starsan, which is listed to be effective so long as the pH of the solution is 3 or lower. I live in an area of hard water and want to check my sanitization is up to scratch... Also generally, how effective is this compared to StarSan? StarSan seems to be a lot more popular on the internet, but not sure if this …
My homebrewer friends recommend the StarSan acid sanitizer, hands-down. I tried it once and it foamed everywhere and left a bunch of rings in the carboy and the bottles. It made me paranoid that it would ruin my batch, but the beer tasted fine. Ever since, I have been wary of using it because of all the foam. Is there any risk associated with leftover acid sanitizer in your beer? What happens to the phosphoric acid and dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid? Are …
(This is only tangentially related to brewing by virtue of Starsan and PWB - feel free to close if this is inappropriate) I have an evaporative cooler, better known as a swamp cooler, that I use in place of AC. It works by drawing water onto a particular material and then blowing a fan across the wet material; the evporation has a localized cooling effect. We use the same principal to keep our fermentation temperatures down if we don't have …
I've had a life-long fancy for using vodka to clean sanitize and naturally use it in my air-lock. Given that it is only 40%, however, and I live in California where pure grain alcohol is illegal, would starsan be better? I guess the two dimensions to take into account would be sanitation and cost, but I am more concerned about sanitation.
So during a cold crash I sucked around a quart of StarSan onto my beer, there's a layer ~1/2 inch thick sitting on top of the beer. Should I try to siphon off this top layer, or wait until i get a keg (a week or two) and just rack whats underneath it?
I'm using lead-free brass barb fittings until my budget gives me the thumbs-up on stainless. The only relevant information I could find is this BYO metallurgy article, which says: The reason that brass fittings are not commonly used in commercial breweries is that the clean-in-place (CIP) systems and chemicals that are commonly used with stainless steel are too corrosive to copper and brass. As homebrewers, we don’t have to use such strong chemicals, nor are our parts in service 24/7, …
For the first time I'm making a starter in my Erlenmeyer flask. I soaked, emptied, and drained the flask pretty good save the foam that is normal. The funnel, bung and blowoff tube were also soaked. I pitched the yeast in a DME solution at 11-12 brix. Pretty standard stuff. Is there any risk I'm going to kill my yeast starter considering any residual StarSan present in the flask.
Ok, i've see so much people here advising the use of PBW - Powdered Brewery Washer. I've seen some videos, and it seems to be a very good thing for cleaning everything in homebrew stuff. But I live in Brasil, and it can be difficult or expensive to export some of this magic powder. The same situation is there for StarSan sanitizer. Here I use a solution of peracetic acid (peroxyacetic acid), but since i've lost my dealer i'm having …
I am a college student brewing in my apartment and while I am pretty dirty on occasion, when it comes to brewing beer I try to be on top of it. While I have not had a bad batch thus far, but the home brew store clerk talked me into buying Star San sanitizer (my defenses are down in the home brew store). Star San allegedly cleans and leaves nutrients for the beer, but is it worth twice the cost …
Can I sanitize all my large fermentation equipment (buckets, lids, tubes...) by spraying it down with a spray bottle of starsan? Just wondering, because so far I have just been filling the 5+ gallon bucket with starsan solution and sanitizing everything in the bucket. The problem with this is that I feel like it wastes so much starsan, and that stuff isn't exactly cheap.