AshtrayDinner
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I've noticed that three of my beers have now noticeably formed a pellicle, leading me to believe my siphoning, and possibly other equipment has been infected.
I'm pretty unhappy, and am ready to do a massive clean before I brew my I.P.A tomorrow.
Generally I just use star san to sanitize my equipment, which I mostly wash with water and elbow grease. However recently, due to the insistence of experienced brewers on this site, I've stopped rinsing my star san.
This leads to my question.
Since Star San is a no-rinse sanitizer, it must be relatively gentle on my yeast right? that's why I can pitch yeast right into a carboy of Star San foam, no?
So if my infection is from wild yeast, Star san is probably not going to kill it, right?
This is almost definitely the time to crack out the PVW and kill and that filthy brettanomyces I think.
If my thinking is wrong please help.
I'm pretty unhappy, and am ready to do a massive clean before I brew my I.P.A tomorrow.
Generally I just use star san to sanitize my equipment, which I mostly wash with water and elbow grease. However recently, due to the insistence of experienced brewers on this site, I've stopped rinsing my star san.
This leads to my question.
Since Star San is a no-rinse sanitizer, it must be relatively gentle on my yeast right? that's why I can pitch yeast right into a carboy of Star San foam, no?
So if my infection is from wild yeast, Star san is probably not going to kill it, right?
This is almost definitely the time to crack out the PVW and kill and that filthy brettanomyces I think.
If my thinking is wrong please help.