B Brite vs Star San for bottling...which to use?

[matthej]

Hi,

I will be bottling my beer tomorrow. I have both b-brite cleaner and Star San sanitizer.
I am confused on which one to use for the bottles etc tomorrow.
On my last batch, I only used b brite.

Can anyone help with this please?

Thanks!

 

[rburrelli]

B-Brite is a cleaner. Starsan is sanitizer. If your bottles are clean already just use Starsan. If they need to be cleaned, use B-Brite first then rinse with Starsan.

 

[hotbeer]

The sodium percarbonate in the B-Brite will act as a sanitizer. However it takes longer to get the same sanitizing results. Your bucket of solution won't be effective as long either. Maybe just a few hours.

If you aren't going to do your own homework on such things then stick to cleaners for cleaning and sanitizers for sanitizing.