Ffuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!

[greencoat]

I'm 30 min deep in my mash and realized I have no starsan left. SWMBO used the last of the bleach cleaning the house a week ago and my car is broken in a parking lot way across town. WHAT'S A BOY TO DO?

 

[Crazytwoknobs]

Hot water! Like crazy hot!

 

[cheezydemon3]

Drive to the store?

 

[CodeRage]

I whipped up a super concentrated batch of oxyclean and scrubbed like mad. I know it isn't sanitized but it turned out with no problems. Might have gotten lucky, dunno.

 

[gtpro]

boiling water where its safe, vodka where it isnt, just make sure to let it sit for a long time.

 

[Revvy]

Drive to the store?

Did you miss this part?

my car is broken in a parking lot way across town.

Know any brewers in your area who can bring you some sanitizer?

Do you have any iodine in the house?

 

[greencoat]

Can't drive, I only have a glass carboy open so boiling water is no good, and I don't have a hard liquor in the house. I do have an unopened tub of Oxyclean . . . here's hoping.

 

[greencoat]

Did you miss this part?



Know any brewers in your area who can bring you some sanitizer?

Do you have any iodine in the house?

My padawon is coming over with some Starsan in a few hours. I called him first, but had to leave a message. Crisis averted!

 

[CodeRage]

Nice! You owe that man a beer.

It got me wondering, would there be anything wrong with using hydrogen peroxide?

 

[HIM_Tattoos]

Rubbing alcohol might have worked too.

 

[greencoat]

I was about to turn up my water heater and hope for the best, haha.

 

[ghpeel]

Use bleach. Just make sure you rinse with tap water. Then, rinse again. And AGAIN.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

I find a menacing look will scare microbes away from my equipment.

 

[HalfPint]

Forest of Austin Homebrew said in a thread somewhere (don't ask me where), "that oxyclean has an acid in it that actually sanitizes in like 10-15 minutes of contact time."

Maybe if someone reads this thread later on they will see this and use it. Good to see someone helped you out.

 

[joety]

Forest of Austin Homebrew said in a thread somewhere (don't ask me where), "that oxyclean has an acid in it that actually sanitizes in like 10-15 minutes of contact time."

Maybe if someone reads this thread later on they will see this and use it. Good to see someone helped you out.

Doesn't surprise me. I accidentally burned some skin off my toes using PBW which is similar to Oxyclean. It had been soaking on my socks for an hour or so. Definitely added an extra element to my morning run the next few days.

 

[weirdboy]

You could always use urine!

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Sweet. Only 21 posts to get to "pee on it."

 

[mordantly]

lessons can be learned nearly any time beer is made:

1. ensure stock of chosen sanitizer is refreshed with ingredient purchases

2. own AT LEAST 3 cars... you just might roll one, and need to fix another, leaving a working vehicle

3. don't use bleach unless boiling water is not compatible with object. bleaching and rinsing sort of defeats "sanititization"

4. relax and drink a brew and jerk off (away from beer)

5. urine is the most dumbassed answer i have ever read on here

 

[weirdboy]

I aim to please.

Also, maybe I need to use smiley faces or something to make it obvious when I'm not being serious. Because people on the internet are apparently VERY SERIOUS and don't like my humor.

 

[mordantly]

do you have any idea the volume of urine required to sanitize something? well it depends on the spcimen, sorta ranges from human:1 pint to hamspter:5000 gallons! and requires a 2-week contact-time.

 

[krops13]

Urine is sligtly acidic and sterial as long as you not sick. As far as contact time IDK. But if that's not your jive there is uv sanitaion for you car boy.

 

[weirdboy]

do you have any idea the volume of urine required to sanitize something? well it depends on the spcimen, sorta ranges from human:1 pint to hamspter:5000 gallons! and requires a 2-week contact-time.

Which part of "I wasn't being serious" did you not get?

 

[GateTwelve]

Some thoughts:

• Any hard spirit - I know you don't have any
• Ammonia - must be rinsed thoroughly with already boiled water
• Hydrogen Peroxide - Food safe, but I can't guarantee it won't produce any off-flavors if not properly rinsed
• White Vinegar - same thoughts as hydrogen peroxide...
• Concentrated Lemon Juice - Mmmm, lemony.

Edit: Oh, and any mouthwash containing phenolics (listerine)

 

[greencoat]

Well, in a true display of camaraderie and class, my sanitizing savior managed to 'forget' to come over and ate an eighth of mushrooms instead.

SWMBO found a little over a cap full of bleach in our roommate's bathroom. Hope he doesn't mind I use the last of his stuff. Le sigh.

 

[northernlad]

[*]Hydrogen Peroxide - Food safe, but I can't guarantee it won't produce any off-flavors if not properly rinsed

I would be interested to know what off flavors could be produced by water with an extra oxygen molecule attached.

 

[GateTwelve]

I would be interested to know what off flavors could be produced by water with an extra oxygen molecule attached.

Ever tasted it by itself? It definitely has its own weird bitter flavor.

 

[netjunk1e]

No one mentioned Camden tablets, I think it is about 5 per gallon to have enough sulfur dioxide to sanitize.

 

[remilard]

Forest of Austin Homebrew said in a thread somewhere (don't ask me where), "that oxyclean has an acid in it that actually sanitizes in like 10-15 minutes of contact time."

Maybe if someone reads this thread later on they will see this and use it. Good to see someone helped you out.

Sorta. If you combine sodium percarbonate (oxyclean, one step) with water you produce hydrogen peroxide which is a weak acid. Hydrogen peroxide's fungicidal and microbicidal activity is not related to its being an acid though.

People have used and continue to use one step, which is substantially identical to oxy clean, as a sanitizer for years so its probably okay but far from ideal.

Campden was the right answer btw, ten points to netjunk1e.

 

[Cliff897]

This is a NO RINSE sanitizer that is a stone cold killer.

5 Gallons water
1 ounce chlorox or any bleach
1 ounce vinegar

Kills as well as star san, doesn't keep so well, and ought not to give you off flavors.

 

[GateTwelve]

This is a NO RINSE sanitizer that is a stone cold killer.

5 Gallons water
1 ounce chlorox or any bleach
1 ounce vinegar

Kills as well as star san, doesn't keep so well, and ought not to give you off flavors.

I wouldn't classify anything containing sodium hypochlorite (bleach) as no rinse. It contributes off-flavors to beer, and when mixed with an acid, releases chlorine.