Ozone sanitation

[trimixdiver1]

Has anyone gone as far to use ozone as a cheap and very effective sanititizer? A lot of breweries are starting to move this direction.

 

[processhead]

Ozone presents some challenges on a home brewing scale.

It has to be generated at the point of use and can't be stored because it is an unstable gas that turns back into oxygen within minutes of being generated.

Ozone is also mildly toxic. Someday there may be affordable, small scale generators that give predicable concentrations that the average joe can use in his home.

 

[trimixdiver1]

Has anyone gone as far to use ozone as a cheap and very effective sanititizer? A lot of breweries are starting to move this direction.

I'm going to give it a shot. I have a source of clean dry air from a refrigerated dryer, a nice degas chamber and a great pump. I'm going to use 2 3G per hour generators.

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Also I'm going to use a ORP probe to verify.

 

[ZebulonBrewer]

Is this a technique that is only cheap and affordable at the commercial scale?

It doesn't get much cheaper than 1 oz to make 5 gallons of starsan, where 32 oz of the stuff isn't very expensive...especially if you don't use more than a gallon of the stuff on brew-day.

 

[trimixdiver1]

Is this a technique that is only cheap and affordable at the commercial scale?

It doesn't get much cheaper than 1 oz to make 5 gallons of starsan, where 32 oz of the stuff isn't very expensive...especially if you don't use more than a gallon of the stuff on brew-day.

It's not about money, it's about effectiveness and the many ways you can use it.

 

[Brettomomyces]

At what point in the process will it be used? For sanitizing FVs?

 

[trimixdiver1]

At what point in the process will it be used? For sanitizing FVs?

Every where in the brewery. With air monitoring you can use it to keep airborne contamination down too.