Sanitizer question

Maybe a very stupid question...
When sanitizing your bottles with one-step, how long do you need to let them dry, if at all, before you fill? If they are still wet when you fill, is the beer ruined?

CCBW said:

Maybe a very stupid question...
When sanitizing your bottles with one-step, how long do you need to let them dry, if at all, before you fill? If they are still wet when you fill, is the beer ruined?

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Just the opposite actually....Starsan and Iodophor are no-rinse, wet contact sanitizers, meaning they maintain their efficacy as sanitizers as long as they remain wet. If you allow something to dry and a microrganism then touches or lands on/in, it, the object will no longer necessarily be sanitized.

With Starsan the wet sanitizer becomes yeast food, and with iodophor it is simply benign...but leaving the sanitiser wet will not ruin your beer.

This thread has a lot of great info on santizing, including podcast links on using starsan and iodophor, and some great tips on using either of them.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/sanitizer-question-54932/?highlight=sanitizer+question

I notice that by the way you wonder if you can ruin your beer, you have this common new brewer idea that somehow your beer is week and easily damaged, like a newborn kitten...It's not actually.

Lemme put it into perspective for you, and save you a lot of "new bewer nerves"...Which we call noobitus.....

Beer has been made for over 5,000 years in some horrific conditions, and still it managed to survive and be popular, like in the desert....It was even made before Louis Pasteur understood germ theory....

If beer turned out bad back then more than it turned out good..then beer would have gone the way of the dodo bird, New Coke, or Pepsi Clear...

It is very very very hard to ruin your beer....it surprises us and manages to survive despite what we do to it...

I want you to read these threads and see..

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/wh...where-your-beer-still-turned-out-great-96780/

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/has-anyone-ever-messed-up-batch-96644/

And this thread to show you how often even a beer we thnk is ruined, ends up being the best beer you ever made, if you have patience....
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/ne...virtue-time-heals-all-things-even-beer-73254/

Just read those, realize how reziliant our beer really is, and relax.

Hope this all helps, I'm off to bed.