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In the kit I got they reccomend sterilising everything with boiling water. Great. Even the PET bottles included in the kit? NO! Put boiling water in your plastic PET bottles, and they will melt, shrink and go out of shape! I guess you have to use one of those chemical sterilisers then huh?

Thanks heaps for setting up this forum. Of course there is a lot out there on the net about brewing, but it is overwhelming, and our conditions are a little different. I first homebrewed as a student in South Africa. We used to use nappy sterilising buckets :-) which may have been related to...