OK with some help from you guys I have created my first brew - Coopers Pale Ale
http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=66744
As with everything homebrew I have found nothing that fully explains to me what and how to clean after my brew. I am sure there is something out there and I am sure it is easy as piss to do but I am the type of guy who likes to get things right the first time and know why I got it right.
Firstly I believe if I had some Starsan I would have not a problem in the world, I would just clean out my brewer with some of the cleaning agent in a spray bottle I got from the homebrew shop with my starter kit and rinsed it (Which I have done) And then put a few ml of starsan in my brewer and fill it up and chuck everything in until I am about to brew again.
Unfortunately the no rinse sanitizer I got in my kit needs 30ml per litre of water and is a 250ml bottle which is already half empty.
What should I do, how should I do it ?
I have used the search function on this forum which does not turn up much in the way of a step by step guide, but lots of people using chemicals like bleach and other nasty sounding shit that I would not like anywhere near my beer until I know what the chemical is and what it does and what it does to you 10 years from now after being injested for so long.
So yeah, should my first thing on the list be to go to my brew shop and get some starsan ?
My brewshop owner is quite happy to talk to me for an hour about brew methods and such but I feel kind of ripped off after actually asking him how long the cleaning products in the kit would last and he told me it would last me 15 brews easily.
Woah, this post is a little longer than I expected.
Is there a step by step guide to cleaning one of those starter kits basically everyone starts with anywhere on the internet ?
http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=66744
As with everything homebrew I have found nothing that fully explains to me what and how to clean after my brew. I am sure there is something out there and I am sure it is easy as piss to do but I am the type of guy who likes to get things right the first time and know why I got it right.
Firstly I believe if I had some Starsan I would have not a problem in the world, I would just clean out my brewer with some of the cleaning agent in a spray bottle I got from the homebrew shop with my starter kit and rinsed it (Which I have done) And then put a few ml of starsan in my brewer and fill it up and chuck everything in until I am about to brew again.
Unfortunately the no rinse sanitizer I got in my kit needs 30ml per litre of water and is a 250ml bottle which is already half empty.
What should I do, how should I do it ?
I have used the search function on this forum which does not turn up much in the way of a step by step guide, but lots of people using chemicals like bleach and other nasty sounding shit that I would not like anywhere near my beer until I know what the chemical is and what it does and what it does to you 10 years from now after being injested for so long.
So yeah, should my first thing on the list be to go to my brew shop and get some starsan ?
My brewshop owner is quite happy to talk to me for an hour about brew methods and such but I feel kind of ripped off after actually asking him how long the cleaning products in the kit would last and he told me it would last me 15 brews easily.
Woah, this post is a little longer than I expected.
Is there a step by step guide to cleaning one of those starter kits basically everyone starts with anywhere on the internet ?