jwwbrennan
Well-Known Member
Sanitizing everything irritates me. It is not doing it that bothers me it is the lingering doubt regarding correct amount. I never know whether I'm fighting contamination or eternal damnation (cleanliness being close to godliness after all). I scrub, clean, sanitize, put the bottles in the oven for 15 minutes at 350; when is enough, enough? When does good practice become obsessive ritual?
I don't find the correct method can be explained as an absolute in all situations. There are many variables including individual environments. Our water comes from the water table below the house, test results are excellent, so I go with that and use it straight from the tap. I'm thinking it will become like everything else - sourdough for example - concern with minutia will be paved over with experience. I'll simply become one with my beer; which I suppose is the whole point in making it.
I don't find the correct method can be explained as an absolute in all situations. There are many variables including individual environments. Our water comes from the water table below the house, test results are excellent, so I go with that and use it straight from the tap. I'm thinking it will become like everything else - sourdough for example - concern with minutia will be paved over with experience. I'll simply become one with my beer; which I suppose is the whole point in making it.