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I was getting black flecks, flakes, particles, in my glass, they look exactly like this guy's https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=250569 I didn't find a definitely answer online but I did discover the reason I was getting them (so I post this for anyone else who is looking for an...

I was getting black flecks, flakes, particles, in my glass, they look exactly like the photos you posted. I didn't find a definitely answer online but I did discover the reason I was getting them (so I post this for anyone else who is looking for an answer). I feel like an idiot now, but I...

I was getting black flecks, flakes, particles, in my glass, they look exactly like this guy's https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=250569 I didn't find a definitely answer online but I did discover the reason I was getting them (so I post this for anyone else who is looking for an...

Hey, thank you! That helps a ton. I'd just about given up on the internet as a source of information, and boom, you sent a great link! That very same email, the one that he is correcting, is posted on other sites without the correction. So that knocks down one of the huge obstacles to...

well to be clear, I'm not bad mouthing the PBW people at all (if you meant me.) I just wished someone had a clear rationale why the answers from Five Star vary so wildly. I have asked Five Star, just not gotten any reply. I like the stuff and plan to continue to use it over cheaper stuff, I just...

If you think the discussion is ridiculous, there are plenty of other ones to read. Why so negative? I'm not sure why this seems like it is touching a nerve or something... everyone else brought up shampoo and laundry soap and toothpaste, so I'm just replying to their observations. If you were...

Yes, as mentioned in the opening post, the Five Star people recommend PBW concentrations that are easily 30x different from one another with no special circumstances mentioned. That's what's odd.

Nope, don't need a starting point, just think it is very odd. I've been using PBW for years, I just think it is very odd that even their own customer support people give recommendations that are easily 30-fold different from one another. Do you use 30 times more shampoo than you wife per...

Well this certainly won't be the first time I was intensely curious about something that everyone else seems to live without knowing. :) It's funny you brought up laundry detergent because I was just about to use that analogy. Imagine that you did want to ask Proctor and Gamble how much...

no I don't have a scale, my brew supply store weighs all my hops for me, so I've never needed one. After years of brewing and never needing one, it seems lame to buy one just to weigh PBW one time. I agree with the cleaning versus sanitizing and looking for grime, but there are some things you...

oh, and I didn't quote this one already, but the tech sheet says 1%, but an email quoted from Five Star says 0.4% is the recommended concentration for home brewers cleaning kegs and whatnot.. so again, that's using half as much as the tech sheet. Is that email correct, and if so, why is it so...

Thanks Gila, I had read that sheet, which at least gave me some impression as to why the variable concentration, but it didn't help me figure out why one employee says 1oz = 1 teaspoon and another says 1oz = 2 tablespoons. And I should just buy a good scale and then answer some of these...

As an example of what I'm really trying to ask, "WHY the wild variations from the manufacturer", I thought maybe they'd say something like the weight to volume is dramatically influenced by humidity so they err on the side of perfectly dry product, but in the real world your results will be much...

I guess I'm curious about a more specific answer because otherwise it is a long trial and error process of continually using less and less until what, you have a couple of bad batches in a row, assume it must have something to do with the low concentration, then gradually increase until the...

This is not a question specifically about how much PBW to use, it is a question about why no one seems to know how much to use, not even the people at Five Star. Not having a home scale (I know, I know...) but using PBW, I have many times googled the concentration of PBW for cleaning home...