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Is how I should have done it lol

Yea, seems it was ok. I didn't get any super pungent smells and supposedly Clorine gas is greenish yellow and heavier than air so would be pretty obvious on the floor. Thanks!! (again answered your question in my previous post)

Getting it extra clean. I'm getting married this week and do we're doing a lot of cleaning around the house and my brain is in overload lol. On the HB side of things, we made 6 cases of Homebrew as our wedding favors

Without thinking I put star San in my dishwasher and then started it with one of those Cascade complete pods in there. I teach first aid and know generally your not supposed to mix cleaning chemicals but just wasn't thinking this morning. Is that safe mixture? I put my portable dishwasher...

Thanks for the advice all. I caved and just did the boil. I was hoping to save myself some time (we're doing homebrews as the favor in our wedding and we had so much stuff to do today I was trying to save every second, lol) but in the time it took me to clean and sanitize the boil was done and...

I was looking around and didn't find anything about this. So i have bottled water so i was wondering if I could skip boiling the priming solution or is it for more than just sanitation purposes? Thanks all a RAHAHB

Thanks for all the help!!

Also, one more quick note. Been a hectic to days since my brew day so I'm only getting it in now. There's still some krausen on top of the beer but it looks like the heavy fermenting is done. Will the little DME mix kick it back up?

Okie doke. For 1lb of DME, how much water you figure?

So I was doing a bit of a rush job on an extract box I got as a Christmas gift ( I do mostly original recipes these days but my of got me a kit that I just hadn't gotten around to). As the description says, after closing up the fermentor for the day, realized I missed a bag of DME. I was...

So I got a new foam stopper for my starter flask as the old one was getting pretty ragged. Any tips on how to clean foam stoppers well? Thanks and RAHAHB

Thanks for all the replies though. Might still give it a go on a day i'm feeling braver, lol.

Sorry to disappoint guys but I went with good 'ol fashion 'swirling as I walk by'. The bottle cap did work in so far as sticking to the stir plate magnet and I was thinking football shape as well, but was more worried about chemicals and some of the metal from the cap getting in there (when i...

So i can't find my stir bar anywhere so am looking into substitutes. It occurred to me that bottle caps touch the beer so should be pretty safe in cooled wort right? What's the consensus on using a sanitized bottle cap as a stir bar for a yeast starter? Any help would be most appreciated as i'm...

So, i've had a yest starter sitting in the fridge for a bit over a month. I was reading something on another forum about botulism poisoning from sitting wort. I don't think I have to worry about that as it was a finished starter so it should be beer now not wort. Anyways, my questions are, do I...