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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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The Beer Home Brewers Thread
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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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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/content/maindocs/iodophor.htm
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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/content/maindocs/iodophor.htm
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Brewing a California common and a dark mild this weekend. 
I think I have another week or two on my Rochefort 8 clone.
I think I have another week or two on my Rochefort 8 clone.
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.
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.
Good beer takes patience. See, you're learning before you even get started!
Haha. I knew someone would say that!
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.
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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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
