Why in the hell do we keep having this debate?!?!?!
To the rinsing proponents: Starsan says, "NO-RINSE". If YOU want to go against the grain and rinse off your sanitizer, by all means, go for it. It will be YOUR beer that may suffer. But don't spread incorrect information by suggesting others do the same. </rant>
+1,000...
As we have said over and over and over, if you rinse AFTER you sanitize then you cut the efficacy of the sanitizer in half. AND run the risk of infection from your water.
Starsan and iodophor are
No Rinse, Wet Contact sanitizers, meaning that as long as the object is
wet with the sanitizer any microorganism (airborn or from our hands) that comes in contact with the object is still killed...
Rinsing away the sanitisers means that more than likely the next micro organism that comes into contact with the object will happily land on it and it won't be killed off, and it will happily f with your beer.
I'm sorry you rinsers are scared of it (Because that is the truth, you're scared of something that has been PROVEN to be safe at proper dillution,)
but you are NOT using it properly, which means that you are playing Russian Roulette with your sanitization and potentially ruining your beer.
Starsan and Iodophor are the only FDA approved
no rinse (foodsafe) sanitisers sold specifically for homebrewing (though there are plenty in the resteraunt and dairy industry you could use. Like I use bulk dairy "iodophor") But those are the only two official homebrewing ones.
There's plenty of info and the links to the podcasts on iodophor and starsan here...You can choose not believe us, or the packaging or the information from the inventors of the products...but at least be informed...
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/sanitizer-question-54932/?highlight=sanitiser+question
Not to mention that the foam in starsan actually becomes yeast food when it is in the fermentor or the bottles...it helps have good yeast health.
There's plenty of information, not superstition, on this site, including podcasts by the creator of starsan....it's not because of ignorance for your somewhat foolish choice, to rinse it, but if you choose to do it, and get an infection, don't bother starting an "is my beer ruined" thread...because that's where the problem lies...
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