A question about air sanitation

[Gary_Oak]

So I'm building a room in our basement and making it my brewing lab and I have this obsession with putting in an air sanitizer because it would give me great peace of mind brewing, racking and culturing. but I read that the uv ones don't kill wild yeast which is mainly what I want to kill and I don't think that just a filter would work, the incinerating ones are hella expensive and I'm not sure how well the ionizing ones would work. So I was wondering what if I ran an air pump with a diffuser into a container of rubbing alcohol in theory that should work right?

 

[Onkel_Udo]

So I'm building a room in our basement and making it my brewing lab and I have this obsession with putting in an air sanitizer because it would give me great peace of mind brewing, racking and culturing. but I read that the uv ones don't kill wild yeast which is mainly what I want to kill and I don't think that just a filter would work, the incinerating ones are hella expensive and I'm not sure how well the ionizing ones would work. So I was wondering what if I ran an air pump with a diffuser into a container of rubbing alcohol in theory that should work right?

If fluid filters for beer and wine can filter out yeast, not sure why a HEPA filter at could not. You are looking at 3-4 microns so a MERV 16 will get 95% and
MERV 13-15 will get 90%.

 

[brew_ny]

wild yeast should not be a problem
good luck

S_M

 

[Gary_Oak]

I think your a nutjob but:



If fluid filters for beer and wine can filter out yeast, not sure why a HEPA filter at could not. You are looking at 3-4 microns so a MERV 16 will get 95% and

MERV 13-15 will get 90%.

I am a little bit of a nut job I just like to have everything controlled, I saw online a uv sanitizer and ionizer so I think that should do the trick

 

[kh54s10]

This sounds like another solution looking for a problem. How many people do their brewing outside and do not have a problem with wild yeast???

Use the money on ingredients to make more BEER!

 

[Tippsy-Turvy]

Just use plastic wrap/cling film on any open containers!

That's what i do once the wort's cooled. Put wrap on the kettle top with only the syphon passing through. Wrap on the fermenter mouth with only the tube going through. You're right that airborne critters shouldn't be sniffed at and using plastic wrap gives me perfect peace of mind. In the early days i used to brew half naked for fear of dust and dog hair getting into my brew!

 

[black_belt]

Even if you filter the air, will you then start wearing a tyvek suit to eliminate you / your clothes as a source of contamination. Wild yeast is not an issue if you use proper sanitizing techniques and don't leave fermentors open.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

Even if you filter the air, will you then start wearing a tyvek suit to eliminate you / your clothes as a source of contamination. Wild yeast is not an issue if you use proper sanitizing techniques and don't leave fermentors open.

Weird, we had some good natured ribbing about just this yesterday on this thread and now the post are gone. Maybe it was my external link of maybe someone did not find it as good natured as intended and deleted the posts but it would have to go far beyond just the Tyvec suit.

 

[peterj]

I heard tell of an "air sanitizing" thread started by the late great Gary_Oak, and lo and behold the legends were true! He's in a better place now, but his memory lives on. #freegary

 

[Frilock]

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