Beer keeps getting infected...

[CrustyBrau]

nooooo!!!! What have i done?!?!

That which can never be mentioned

 

[Shooter]

Good luck!! I see great beer in your future.

 

[Brasco20]

I use bottled spring water from wally world for my brew, but mix my starsan with warm tap water. I read in the beginning of this thread to use bottled distilled water for the starsan. Am i screwing up by using tap water for the starsan?

 

[dgooden]

I use tap water for my sanitizer and haven't had any issues...it is sanitizer, after all. That said, there is nothing wrong with using distilled or boiled water, and it does remove a variable from the equation.

Use whatever you are comfortable with/have success with.

 

[Shooter]

I use bottled spring water from wally world for my brew, but mix my starsan with warm tap water. I read in the beginning of this thread to use bottled distilled water for the starsan. Am i screwing up by using tap water for the starsan?

Star San will work fine in tap water. However, if you use distilled water it can last longer. I mix up a 2.5 gallon of distilled with Star San and keep most of it in a Homer bucket with a lid. I also keep a small spray bottle of the stuff on hand. Using distilled water it lasts for months. I test the ph of the solution every once in a while to make sure it's still in the proper range and it always is.

 

[BlueSunshine]

I use filtered tap water to top off my batches and so far I've had no ill effects. Also, I've never had any issues with using tap water with StarSan. Just getting some solution on my hands burns a bit so I know it's killing some germs.