Sanitation....did I screw up????

[Lordlindsey]

Howdy everyone. These boards are great.

Last night I started sterilizing my equipment, using Idophor.
I let everything sit overnight. Now all the plastic bits are stained brownish.

I realized that I should not have done that overnight.

Do you think I screwed up or should I continue brewing?

 

[Yooper]

Discolored fermenters are fine. But you should sanitize right before using any equipment, not the day before. Iodophor is a great "wet contact" sanitizer, so you can add your wort and use your equipment while it is still wet with sanitizer.

I'd sanitize over again right before using.

 

[Reelale]

It's fine. Iodophor does stain hoses and plastic fermenting buckets, even after just a few minutes. It won't hurt anything.

 

[Lordlindsey]

Good to know, thanks guys.

 

[Lordlindsey]

Oh snap....didn't realize my liquid yeast takes 3hrs. to acivate!!!!

Damn.

I have it activating and it would be ~1hr. before it's ready to add to the wort.

What should I do?
Add after the wort is 70degrees or place the wort in the fermenter and add the yeast when it is ready?

Aghghgghggh.

 

[McGarnigle]

Oh snap....didn't realize my liquid yeast takes 3hrs. to acivate!!!!

Damn.

I have it activating and it would be ~1hr. before it's ready to add to the wort.

What should I do?
Add after the wort is 70degrees or place the wort in the fermenter and add the yeast when it is ready?

Aghghgghggh.

You don't really need to activate the yeast pack. Bring it to room temps though.

 

[eastoak]

Oh snap....didn't realize my liquid yeast takes 3hrs. to acivate!!!!

Damn.

I have it activating and it would be ~1hr. before it's ready to add to the wort.

What should I do?
Add after the wort is 70degrees or place the wort in the fermenter and add the yeast when it is ready?

Aghghgghggh.

you can pitch the yeast whenever you want, you could skip smacking the pack altogether and it would still work. depending on the gravity of your beer you might want to make a yeast starter next time. don't pitch until your wort is at the recommended pitching temperature for the yeast you are using then be sure to control the fermenting temperature as best you can to keep it within the recommended temps for the yeast. i like to keep it on the lower end of the range.

 

[EdWort]

I used to use Iodophor, but I got tired of the staining and I have a septic tank, so it's not good for that either.

Since then I have moved to StarSan exclusively and it's been great. It's a food grade acid based sanitizer, so it is septic safe and you no longer need to fear the foam. Just put your wort right on it and it dilutes and becomes food for the yeast.

Check it out. 1 oz. for 5 gallons of sanitizer.

 

[HH60gunner]

I used to use Iodophor, but I got tired of the staining and I have a septic tank, so it's not good for that either.

Since then I have moved to StarSan exclusively and it's been great. It's a food grade acid based sanitizer, so it is septic safe and you no longer need to fear the foam. Just put your wort right on it and it dilutes and becomes food for the yeast.

Check it out. 1 oz. for 5 gallons of sanitizer.

+1

After I picked up my first bottle of StarSan, I wouldn't go back to anything else.