Powder Sanitizer leaves residue?

[madrean]

I was sanitizing some bottles tonight and noticed after they dried there was a powdery residue on them (I rinsed the insides).

Maybe I used too much.

I wonder if that stuff is bad for you, as I didn't purge all of it when siphoning from secondary to priming bucket....

 

[Genghis77]

What sort of powder are you using? Generically it shouldn't hurt you unless you really got a lot, but can flatten carbonation in your bottles.

 

[Dude]

That is why I stopped using one-step. Our HBS owner sells it and that is what all of my brewing started with. Now it is iodophor exclusively.

 

[SteveM]

I have not run into this, but I am suspicious of any kind of additives or chemicals, so even though they are touted as "no rinse" I still rinse everything.

One possibility - if you used hard water or allowed the bottles to dry right side up, you might have a residue from the water itself.

 

[Patty2]

I have noticed this same residue on the batch I recently bottled. For me it seems limited to the bottle caps as I washed most of them in a bucket of powder sanitizer prior to capping, and that seems to have left one heckava residue.

It was so bad around one particular bottle cap that I went ahead and popped the top (slowly) then proceeded to wipe the lip of the bottle clean. After that I poured the beer in a glass and drank it... there was no way I was throwing the beer out!

I won't use that powder stuff in the future. I guess cheap Vodka would be better for the caps?