I care a lot about saving money, and I can't afford for home brewing to be as expensive as wine in the store. On the other hand, time is money, and I don't want to say five cents on my sanitizer, only to spend hours and effort having to go through the process of using it. I wish I could use bleach, but it will leave off flavors over time and is bad for plastic. I have looked at some sanitizers, but they are all very expensive, They stain plastic, and for all of them, you have to make them yourself. I would be fine mixing it up myself I suppose if it were cheap, but to have to pay for an expensive sanitizer that I have to mix up myself is not good. I especially need it to be cheap because if I am going to sanitize this equipment, I have to sanitize my sink first because I do all sorts of things in there putting food down the garbage disposal. I live in an apartment with no dishwasher, so that won't work. Even if I had a dishwasher, that still would not work because I just need a way to easily sanitize things right before I use them. Can you just sanitize with rubbing alcohol or will that not work? I know that it would leave off flavors, but if you rinsed it, it probably wouldn't. I am doing my first Welches right now. I have not had to sanitize yet because all of my equipment was new, and I am just making it in the juice bottle, which is a sterile container before you break the seal. However, I will need to sanitize my equipment once the wine is finished and to make future batches, so I would appreciate any advice. I would like to sanitize my equipment, as well as plastic bottles I save that I want to use to store and carbonate. I was also thinking of racking the finished wine into a sanitized jar, cleaning and sanitizing the grape juice bottle, and then racking the wine back into that bottle. I am looking for a way to both clean and sanitize. If I can do them both at once, that would be great.