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Happy Memorial Day all, I'm brewing today, and I forgot to get the yeast nutrient (bru vigor). The homebrew store is closed, so is there something I can use instead of the yeast nutrient? I've never made a batch without the stuff, so how will fermentation be affected without it?

Ha, it's mostly that I just hate cleaning. I love brewing and tasting, but the cleaning/sanitizing gets soooo repetitive and boring. So it sounds like it would be theoretically possible. I just wondered if anyone had done it before and had any problems with heating the glass or anything else.

Obviously that is the standard and quickest way, but as I said, I'm feeling particularly lazy. Can't I just put them in the dishwasher and sit in front of the TV for an hour (with a homebrew, of course) while modern technology does all the work?

I have several 1 gallon glass jugs that I'm thinking about using as mini trial-fermenters. I was thinking about just throwing them in the dishwasher for a sanitize cycle. They are already cleaned and rinsed, but I figured I could let the dishwasher do the sanitation work since I'm feeling...