Durand.Thomas29
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Being a brewer that has to put everything away at the end of the day it’s been easiest to just use the kitchen towels from my house. But I’ve recently upped the frequency of my brew days and I just got my Oktober bench canner. And I found that weekends can be packed with brewing related activities and we don’t have enough towels in my house. And my wife isn’t quite fond of stains on our nice ones.
So I decided it’s time to buy brewing specific towels. I use to work at a bar/restaurant and we used the white towels with the color coded stripe (blue stripe bar towel). But I have found if you use a cheap dyed cloth and leave it in a bucket of pbw or StarSan it actually leaches some of the dye out of the rag.
I could go all white towels, but then they might get mixed up with my house towels. Also for some reason the novelty of the colored stripe appeals to me for easy identification and for the look. But does anyone have experience with these? I’m worried the dye will be leached out when using cleaners and I don’t want to be rubbing dye water all over my equipment before or after a brew for some of that to get into the beer inevitably.
the cleaners/sanitizers I use are:
-PBW
-Bar keepers friend
-starsan
-dish soap
So I decided it’s time to buy brewing specific towels. I use to work at a bar/restaurant and we used the white towels with the color coded stripe (blue stripe bar towel). But I have found if you use a cheap dyed cloth and leave it in a bucket of pbw or StarSan it actually leaches some of the dye out of the rag.
I could go all white towels, but then they might get mixed up with my house towels. Also for some reason the novelty of the colored stripe appeals to me for easy identification and for the look. But does anyone have experience with these? I’m worried the dye will be leached out when using cleaners and I don’t want to be rubbing dye water all over my equipment before or after a brew for some of that to get into the beer inevitably.
the cleaners/sanitizers I use are:
-PBW
-Bar keepers friend
-starsan
-dish soap