Hello, eveyone! I currently subject all my equipment that has any long term contact with wort/beer to a cleaning regimen involving PBW, Saniclean, and StarSan.
I first soak in the PBW, at least 30 minutes, sometimes as long as overnight for fermenting vessels. I then immediately rinse with Saniclean. I do this acid rinse because I thought I was told that PBW is pretty basic, so an acid rinse is a good idea. After this, I store the parts and do a sanitization with StarSan just before use.
When reading the responses to another post of mine, it was mentioned that the Saniclean step might be unnecessary. I just wanted thoughts on this, because I am going through the Saniclean pretty fast, and that's stuff's not cheap.
I first soak in the PBW, at least 30 minutes, sometimes as long as overnight for fermenting vessels. I then immediately rinse with Saniclean. I do this acid rinse because I thought I was told that PBW is pretty basic, so an acid rinse is a good idea. After this, I store the parts and do a sanitization with StarSan just before use.
When reading the responses to another post of mine, it was mentioned that the Saniclean step might be unnecessary. I just wanted thoughts on this, because I am going through the Saniclean pretty fast, and that's stuff's not cheap.