azazel1024
Well-Known Member
@TheMadKing
Also plan to toss things that aren't easy to clean, like siphon tubing every 12 months or so. I was starting to get infections because I couldn't thoroughly clean my siphon tubing. Or at least I tried a bunch of different changes in sanitation and replacing a couple of bits (like my Siphon), finally replaced the siphon tubing and not an infected batch since.
I do a better job sanitizing everything now as well, which probably is a good thing, but I am 99% sure it was siphon tubing that had "kicked". It was about 18 months in to brewing before I started getting infected batches, but I got 2 obviously infected batches (continued to over carb and started to develop an iron taste) and 2 more that might have been (developed the iron taste, slight overcarb, but they didn't seem to get to bottle bomb levels where 1 of the massive overcarbed batches did have 2 bottles explode).
I was doing the soap rinse after bottling or use and oxy and then idophor before use. Now I do oxy after use and then oxy and idophor right before use. That and I devised a way to clean my siphon tubing thoroughly every once in awhile. A cotton patch soaked in bleach and run through with a straightened shirt hanger. Run it through one direction and then the other to scrub the inside of the vinyl tubing. I am doing it about every 4-5 batches. This is on top of the oxy and idophor soaking.
Probably will still replace it every year, it is only about $4 worth of tubing.
Also plan to toss things that aren't easy to clean, like siphon tubing every 12 months or so. I was starting to get infections because I couldn't thoroughly clean my siphon tubing. Or at least I tried a bunch of different changes in sanitation and replacing a couple of bits (like my Siphon), finally replaced the siphon tubing and not an infected batch since.
I do a better job sanitizing everything now as well, which probably is a good thing, but I am 99% sure it was siphon tubing that had "kicked". It was about 18 months in to brewing before I started getting infected batches, but I got 2 obviously infected batches (continued to over carb and started to develop an iron taste) and 2 more that might have been (developed the iron taste, slight overcarb, but they didn't seem to get to bottle bomb levels where 1 of the massive overcarbed batches did have 2 bottles explode).
I was doing the soap rinse after bottling or use and oxy and then idophor before use. Now I do oxy after use and then oxy and idophor right before use. That and I devised a way to clean my siphon tubing thoroughly every once in awhile. A cotton patch soaked in bleach and run through with a straightened shirt hanger. Run it through one direction and then the other to scrub the inside of the vinyl tubing. I am doing it about every 4-5 batches. This is on top of the oxy and idophor soaking.
Probably will still replace it every year, it is only about $4 worth of tubing.
