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Sterilising water for rinsing
Hi,
After my first brew day I found keeping everything clean a bit of a chore, in particular rinsing everything with sterilised water all the time. I only had enough bottled water for the actual brew so I was forever boiling water to rinse with.
Would it be okay to sterilise a bucket, fill it full of tap water and chuck some tablets in? What tablets would anyone recommend and where would I get them from?
Cheers
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
Hi hoplover
get a tub of V W P steriliser from your H/B shop,and you can sterilis all your brewing equipment,and just use cold tap water to rinse off any steriliser.
Posted 1 year ago by Member
I thought the water you use to rinse has to be sterile itself (i.e. boiled and cooled). Can I simply use tap water to rinse?
Posted 1 year ago by Member
To clarify, I am using Youngs steriliser and then rinsing with boiled water which has cooled down
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Tap water is fine to rinse with, with all the chemicals (chlorine/chloramine etc) in there and the other treatments it goes through to make it safe for us to drink means it will be fine for a rinse around!
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
Get Star San. It's a contact sanitiser. Make up a batch to sanitise all you stuff in a bucket and put some in a spray bottle. Just squirt at whatever and it's sanitised in 30 seconds.
Fermenting:
Condtioning:
Drinking: Twibute Clone, PJ Clone
Posted 1 year ago by Member
While it is probably not good practice, I have never sterilised anything. If it's clean and smells okay I just give a quick blast with the hose.
Fermenting: Damson pale
Conditioning: Morello Cherry Lambic 2
Drinking: Schneider Weisse Tap 7 clone, Morello Cherry Lambic 1, Rauchbier
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