Sanitation Methods

[RedVR6]

Hi guys...I am new here. Great forum!

Thanks to one of my VW buddies, he turned me on to RealBeer.com and I decided to start brewing again. I just ordered a beginners kit from Williams Brewing (Fireside Ale). Broke out my brewing kit I bought from a now defunct local home brew shop a few yars ago..."Hop and Vine" (for those in NJ probably remember) and just spent the afternoon cleaning my kit and all my equipment looks like it is still in very good shape. :cool:

I live in a relatively small house...duplex to be exact and all we have is a decent sized stainless kitchen sink but really nothing else as far as a sink. I was curious about what you guys might suggest to use for sanitizing my equipment prior to my boil. As in what should I put the equipment in. Would a LARGE Rubbermade tub be suffice? what do you all use?

Thanks!

-Doug

[edit] Sorry...should have put this down in the Sanitation forum. Rookies.

[wortchillergoal]

You only need to sanitize items that will come into contact with the beer/wort after you cool it to pitching temp. I put sanitizer right in to my fermenter, the rest you could sanitize in the sink.

The key is to get to pitching temp as fast as possible after the boil. A wortchiller is a good tool and you don't need to sanitize it as the temp of the wort is still high enough as you put it in, immersion type chiller. I ahve not used a counter flow chiller so I don't know if they need it or not.


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[RedVR6]

Right. Which really is not too much. I guess the sink will do the job. I do have a wort chiller as well, which I did learn to be a very handy too on my last couple of brews a few years ago.

I have been saving up 20oz Bass bottles for quite some time now, I assume I could use the sink too for label peeling?

[Fast_Eddy]

Originally posted by RedVR6
Right. Which really is not too much. I guess the sink will do the job. I do have a wort chiller as well, which I did learn to be a very handy too on my last couple of brews a few years ago.

I have been saving up 20oz Bass bottles for quite some time now, I assume I could use the sink too for label peeling?

I've found that PBW does a great job removing labels.