Finn
Well-Known Member
I made a sort of discovery today and wanted to share it -- my apologies if it's already known. For those of you who live in the country, using an unchlorinated well system, like me, it may be useful.
My usual routine is to boil a big ol' canner full of water the night before -- it cools down to room temp overnight and there it is, my only source of trustworthy water! Which I then have to divvy up between a pan for rinsing bleach off stuff, and a pot for topping off my carboy with after the wort goes in. And of course I'm paranoid that I'm introducing bacteria into the stuff at every point in the day.
Well -- yesterday night I put seven quart Mason jars full of water in that canner, with used lids screwed on just like I was canning tomatoes. I gave 'em 10 minutes before I shut off the fire. This morning -- voila! Seven quarts of sterile, sealed, canned water.
I'm using one of them to get my starter rolling right now, and the other six are waiting patiently in perfect sterility for the topping-off part, pouring into the carboy to rinse it out, and anything else I might need. The ones that are left over can go into the shed for use during the next power outage.
Just another idea ... hope somebody finds it useful!
--Finn
My usual routine is to boil a big ol' canner full of water the night before -- it cools down to room temp overnight and there it is, my only source of trustworthy water! Which I then have to divvy up between a pan for rinsing bleach off stuff, and a pot for topping off my carboy with after the wort goes in. And of course I'm paranoid that I'm introducing bacteria into the stuff at every point in the day.
Well -- yesterday night I put seven quart Mason jars full of water in that canner, with used lids screwed on just like I was canning tomatoes. I gave 'em 10 minutes before I shut off the fire. This morning -- voila! Seven quarts of sterile, sealed, canned water.
I'm using one of them to get my starter rolling right now, and the other six are waiting patiently in perfect sterility for the topping-off part, pouring into the carboy to rinse it out, and anything else I might need. The ones that are left over can go into the shed for use during the next power outage.
Just another idea ... hope somebody finds it useful!
--Finn