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"Milton Sterilising Fluid allows you to sterilise in just 15 minutes, killing bacteria, viruses, fungi and spores (tough dormant bacteria). It has been used in hospitals for many years as a simple and very reliable method." Wow. Sounds way stronger than needed for brewing! I wonder whats in it? "Milton Fluid is made of an aqueous solution of ...

If the sanitizer was StarSan, then you'll be fine. At the usual concentration of 1oz per 5 gallons, it's safe - even safe enough to drink. StarSan is phosphoric acid and surfactants - coke is also largely phosphoric acid and sugar, so the two are in someways similar. In a radio program, Charlie Talley, 5 star chemicals allegedly drank a glass of starsan, ...

You can store star san in an air tight container for up to 2-3 weeks and as long as the pH is below 3 it is still good. It is also best to mix with RO or distilled which will keep the solution from becoming cloudy. If you use regular tap water the minerals will react with the acid and can turn the star san cloudy but it still is ok to use as long as the pH ...

If you're using a powdered sanitizer, like One Step, it doesn't respond well to storage. It's a percarbonate based sanitizer that depends on O2 to work. If you store a mixed solution long, the O2 bubbles out making it unreliable. If you use Iodophor, you can store it for a week or 2 until it loses its color. It you use StarSan and mix it with distilled ...

Oxiclean is a fine cleaner, requiring just a few minutes contact to clean, depending upon how soiled the equipment is. As it's decomposition includes hydrogen peroxide, it can also be used as a sanitizer in sufficient dosage. Hydrogen peroxide is a great sanitizer, but there are some drawbacks it's corrosive to metals, since the peroxide increases the ...

Star-San kills yeast. Star-san doesn't discriminate across different microbes. Despite that yeast can survive a pH2 solution, the pH is not the killing action of StarSan, its the redox reaction on the cell membranes of microbes that does the killing. The low pH is just what indicates that StarSan is active, not how it kills. Keep in mind too that ...

I think all the info you want is at their home page (relevant snippets below): The formulation of our C-Brite is a federally approved sanitizer...we learned last year...that sanitizers must be registered on a State-by-State basis...neither we nor our producer is willing to do....we have had to take the product and sell it as a cleanser instead, ...

Starsan is safe to consume once diluted to the recommended concentration (1 fl.oz/30ml to 5 gallons/20 liters.) A quart of starsan in 5 gallons would not kill the yeast - made up starsan has a pH around 2.6-3.0 depending upon your water hardness. Once diluted in 5 gallons of beer, the starsan is diluted a further 20 times. (1 quart in 5 gallons.) That ...

I've not used it myself, but found that some high ranking members over at www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk use it. They say they got it at the Pharmacist at ASDA for about £4.50 for a 500ml bottle. This is then diluted to 2.5ml in 2000ml water, so it's going to last a while! 1.25ml/l is the usual concentration. 2.5ml/l is the maximum no-rinse concentration. ...

I can't speak with any authority, but it appears to be similar but not identical. The color of the product appears more amber/brown, and the disclaimer that it needs to be drained well doesn't seem to be quite the same as StarSan's motto of "don't fear the foam". However, they are both acid-based sanitizers and likely work in a similar method. If it's ...

First of all, IMO it's a bad idea to use any chlorine based sanitizer. You're setting yourself up to possibly end up with chlorophenols in your beer. In addition, it needs to be rinsed and if you don't use boiled water to rinse, you're undoing your sanitation routine. Percarbonate based sanitizers lose their ability to produce O2 quickly, which makes them ...

I keep mixed star san in my corny kegs for storage, that's always been fine. But that star san is only used to keep the inside of the kegs clean during their down time. We keep an eye on as to how long they have been in there and purge them with CO2. For brewing use, I also keep a spray bottle of it handy, checking the PH every now and again. I've ...

That's nasty stuff. Handle with gloves! Paracetic Acid comes in several concentrations if you have the 5% Paracetic Acid solution then you should shoot for 1% of the solution in your volume of water. So 1L would need 10ml of parasafe and then scale up or down from there. Honestly I'd skip it, and make your own sanitizer. In a pinch where I'm out of starsan ...

The references I can find list 5 minutes as the contact time. I would be remiss if I didn't mention that bisulphite (either sodium or potassium) is a very poor sanitizer for beer. It can work with wine becasue the pH of wine is lower than beer and the alcohol content is higher than beer. Those provide additional protection. But for beer, bisulphite will ...

The way I was taught, cleaners are used for anything visible, such as hop material at the top of a carboy or a tube filled with gunk, and sanitizer is for everything contacting your beer that you CAN'T see. Using a good sanitizer will reduce the population of bacteria on equipment surfaces to as low as possible. I can't comment on oxiclean (which would be ...

An infection is not a likely culprit for undercarbonation. Nor is the StarSan, provided that you let the bottles dry completely. I always give stuff a quick rinse after using sanitizer because it always seems like I don't have enough time to let things dry out completely. I feel better with a quick rinse--I don't want whatever chemical is creating that ...

No, the StarSan will not significantly hinder carbonation. A week is a bit long. I generally rise and pour the beer in right into the still-wet bucket. It's not a problem. I don't think letting the starsan dry is actually a best practice but it still isn't your issue unless you are getting infections. In short, StarSan isn't your issue. Could you ...