Quick question:

Comment by James P on May 31, 2009 at 5:22pm

10ml plain, cheap, unscented household bleach to 5L water

From AHB

Comment by jt on May 31, 2009 at 5:30pm

Try bleach & white vinegar - many threads (except here) - originastes most recently from the 5star chemical guy.
From memory 30ml each mixted into 19l water - don't mix bleach & vinegar together first though

Comment by Stu McKinlay on May 31, 2009 at 8:31pm

Read up on what everyone says all over the place.
I use Iodophor. No sweat. No phenolics. No handling issues. You can SEE when it is losing its power (colour drops away). You can use it on everything in the brewing process.

Cleaning is often under rated though. If you clean the bejezzus out of everything after brewing, and then give it a an easy going over before sanitising, you'll probably be fine with any sanitiser.

Comment by cerevisia on May 31, 2009 at 9:07pm

Oh hey thanks man, yeah I normally clean all my stuff pretty well before and after brewing so I should be ok with bleach for now. I'll just really rinse it out with water.

Comment by Pilgrim on May 31, 2009 at 11:22pm

Re: NapySan for cleaning, the active ingredient is Sodium Percarbonate. I checked out all of the labels at the local Pack-n-Save and found a wide variation in the amount of active ingredient. NappySan was 18%, the best was Clorox Oxi Magic at 33%, for a similar price. So I clean with Oxi Magic and Sanitize with StarSan from Brewer's Coop.

Comment by Barry on June 2, 2009 at 9:17am

Iodophor vs Starsan, paraphrasing from a presentation I saw by Jon Herskovits (Owner of 5 Star who make Starsan):
Which is better? It depends on what you mean by iodophor. Straight, unadulterated iodophor is a very effective anti-microbial, but not a very good sanitiser. Why? It doesn't get into most places that need sanitising. It lacks "surfectants" - the additives that reduce the surface tension of the whole solution allowing it to get into tiny pores and truly sanitise the entire container effectively.
The iodophor I use is Klenz, which is a complex blend of iodophor/surfectants/detergents that most likely does just as good a job as Starsan.
Starsan is excellent stuff, so are certain blends/brands of iodophor.

Comment by Brendon on June 3, 2009 at 4:27pm

Shameless plug - you can get iodophor at libertybrewing.co.nz

Check out http://libertybrewing.co.nz/?q=node/75

Comment by Mike Neilson on June 3, 2009 at 4:56pm

Man just got some brewery sanitizer man it powerfull stuff!!

Comment by Brendon on June 3, 2009 at 5:07pm

peracetic acid based?
Personally, that would be what I would use if I could get it at a reasonable price.

Comment by Mike Neilson on June 3, 2009 at 5:16pm

Yip!!

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