Do I need to rinse after using Idophor?

[Oregonducks10]

If I use Idophor to clean carboy do i need to rinse it?

 

[mrk305]

No need to rince.

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

Necessary, no. But I do it with city water which is chlorinated and therefore considered sanitized.

M_C

 

[Revvy]

Most of the sanitzers we use, especially Starsan and iodophor are No rinse/wet contact sanitizers. They are literally double edged swords. They kill two ways. They kill everything on the object prior to sanitizing, and then as long as they are still wet they form a sanitizer barrier that kills everything that comes into contact with object.

If you let the sanitizer dry any micro organism that comes in contact with the sanitized object, rather than being killed by it, makes the object no longer sanitzed.

If you let it dry you are reducing it's efficacy by 50%

You really want to sanitize right at the time you are using the thing you are sanitizing. And let the wort/beer flow on top of it.

I put a lot of good info and tips of effectively using sanitizers in here. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/sanitizer-question-54932/[/QUOTE]

 

[HItransplant]

no, ...rinsing would negate the the whole point of using sanitizer in the first place. The bottle should tell you how to use properly.

check this out

I used iodophor on my first batch, then found out about starsan... that stuff is soooo much easier to use than iodophor. Just a thought.

good luck.

 

[Hoppin_Mad]

Yea, I much prefer Starsan. It just comes down to if you can get past pouring your wort into a carboy with a ton of bubbles in it. Just feels so wrong!