therichieboy
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Hi fellow homebrewtalkers,
Been a while since I said anything on these forums so nice to be back. Pls don't burn me for my following question. I've done a menial search here and across the www and am stumped.
So........ We've recently acquired a 100l automated stainless system and as a prerequisite of going commercial (here in Israel) we need to use peracetic acid as a sanitiser.
Now I'm very familiar with peracetic acid having worked in commercial breweries in the UK but never have I seen what I'm seeing now: after sanitising though our CIP system the peracetic acid is coming out a pinkish color. Then, when recycling it to our bottle washer we're getting dark pink/purple residue.
I checked with some of my mates from the commercial brewing industry in England and they're stumped.
The locals here have ruled out any deliberate inbuilt mechanism in peracetic acid that may stain it (I don't read Hebrew so well). My only conclusion is that it is due to residue from a red scouring cloth we used on the heating elements that got lodged in our pump.
Any ideas? ?
Cheers
Been a while since I said anything on these forums so nice to be back. Pls don't burn me for my following question. I've done a menial search here and across the www and am stumped.
So........ We've recently acquired a 100l automated stainless system and as a prerequisite of going commercial (here in Israel) we need to use peracetic acid as a sanitiser.
Now I'm very familiar with peracetic acid having worked in commercial breweries in the UK but never have I seen what I'm seeing now: after sanitising though our CIP system the peracetic acid is coming out a pinkish color. Then, when recycling it to our bottle washer we're getting dark pink/purple residue.
I checked with some of my mates from the commercial brewing industry in England and they're stumped.
The locals here have ruled out any deliberate inbuilt mechanism in peracetic acid that may stain it (I don't read Hebrew so well). My only conclusion is that it is due to residue from a red scouring cloth we used on the heating elements that got lodged in our pump.
Any ideas? ?
Cheers