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02-05-2013, 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by baba  Not sure what you used, but I've never sanitized anything for that period of time. I've tried many things but prefer iodophor due to its price and effectiveness. | http://www.southhillsbrewing.com/equ...Sanitizer-8-oz
This is what I used. A review I read somewhere said they had to soak stuff for ~20 mins.
I just bought some one step and the sanitizer spray thing for the bottle tree. Hopefully those do the trick.
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02-05-2013, 11:00 PM
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02-06-2013, 09:24 AM
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02-06-2013, 09:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: The REAL LA -- Lower Alabama! | | I use Iodophor. It's cheap, It's basically an iodine derivative, and iodoine is a nutrient. I like to think it's kinder and gentler than other chemicals. My wife has an iodoine allergy and she has no trouble with my beer.
My primary fermenters are 6 gallon plastic pails. I clean/sanitize them with a cup of bleach in a full pail of water, soak for 30 minutes to an hour, then rinse, then follow up with Iodophor. Since plastic an be scratched and bad stuff can hide in scratches, this kind of insures that they will be well sanitized. I may be going overboard, but i've had one infected batch in 10 years (maybe 50-75 ten gallon batches batches) so I guess doing something right. It would have been zero infected batches, but during the brewing of the one batch that was infected, I had some major distractions and I know I screwed up. Live and learn.
Here's a good link with good info about it: http://www.bayareamashers.org/conten...s/iodophor.htm
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02-07-2013, 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by hbarcat I have some well established Cascade hops at my house and every spring I make rhizomes available free of charge to any TB'ers who want to grow them. Check out one of my annual Cascade threads or just send me a PM around the middle of March and I'll hook you up. Giving away Cascade hop rhizomes (season 2) | Very cool! I definitely want to be on the list this year, thanks for the offer! |
02-07-2013, 01:45 PM
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I think I have another week or two on my Rochefort 8 clone. |
02-07-2013, 01:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | | They didn't even ship my kit yet. I'm getting antsy, dammit!
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02-07-2013, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Perry They didn't even ship my kit yet. I'm getting antsy, dammit! | Sometimes the less expensive shipping means they'll take a while. I know when Northern Brewer, their $7.99 shipping seemed to take quite a while. The more expensive shipping seems lightning fast. |
02-07-2013, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by spade2you Sometimes the less expensive shipping means they'll take a while. I know when Northern Brewer, their $7.99 shipping seemed to take quite a while. The more expensive shipping seems lightning fast. | 
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02-07-2013, 03:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | | Could be worse. My local shop routinely charges ~2x what most online places charge, which I quickly learned after buying a Belgian IPA locally and seeing it at half price elsewhere. |
02-07-2013, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Perry | Good beer takes patience. See, you're learning before you even get started! 
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02-07-2013, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by UncleFluffy Good beer takes patience. See, you're learning before you even get started! | Haha. I knew someone would say that!
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02-08-2013, 10:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Patience is definitely part of the equation. I'll soon be racking a barley wine that'll need to sit for several months in the secondary as well as several months bottle conditioning.
Also: http://www.homebrewfinds.com/2013/02...r-brewing.html |
02-08-2013, 11:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | Patience has gotta be hard with the very first brew! I want my first one to turn out great, so I will be very patient.
That being said, the kit and bottles just shipped this AM with a scheduled delivery date of 2/12. Happy Valentine's Day to me!
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02-08-2013, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by spade2you | Again, thanks! Downloading this now...
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02-08-2013, 12:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | | Homebrewfinds tends to have some cheap or free kindle books. A while back, they had Charles Bamforth's book.
While you wait, never hurts to make sure you have plenty of beer bottles and maybe run them through the dishwasher to make sure they're extra clean when you need them. |
02-08-2013, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by spade2you Homebrewfinds tends to have some cheap or free kindle books. A while back, they had Charles Bamforth's book.
While you wait, never hurts to make sure you have plenty of beer bottles and maybe run them through the dishwasher to make sure they're extra clean when you need them. | I bought a few cases of new bottles, and I'm in the process of collecting others. All the collected ones will get a trip through the dishwasher before used.
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02-08-2013, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Perry I bought a few cases of new bottles, and I'm in the process of collecting others. All the collected ones will get a trip through the dishwasher before used. | Never buy bottles. They make ones you can use with beer already in them.
It's generally best to at least rinse bottles ASAP to get all crud and sediment out of the beer. Homebrew bottles tend to contain yeast and sugar as the sediment. Unwanted junk grows on them for this reason. Once it dries, it can be a lot harder to get off. |
02-08-2013, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by spade2you Never buy bottles. They make ones you can use with beer already in them.
It's generally best to at least rinse bottles ASAP to get all crud and sediment out of the beer. Homebrew bottles tend to contain yeast and sugar as the sediment. Unwanted junk grows on them for this reason. Once it dries, it can be a lot harder to get off. | Well, I didn't have any laying around, and since I have beer on tap here, I don't go through many bottles.
The ones here I keep filled with water while waiting for a dishwasher full so no crusties form inside.
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02-08-2013, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Perry Well, I didn't have any laying around, and since I have beer on tap here, I don't go through many bottles.
The ones here I keep filled with water while waiting for a dishwasher full so no crusties form inside. | Ah, gotcha. Every now and then, I keep thinking about using my keg fridge to keep something on tap. A lot of the beers I'd want to get are only available as pony kegs or there's not much savings compared to buying the beer bottles. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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