Sanitizing my Carboys

[LarryC]

I did some searching but I got so many returns I couldn't find what I was looking for so here it is. I have been using On-Step cleaner for sanitizing my equipment. When I was doing the Mr. Beer thing, it said to just swish the sanitizer around in the little keg a few times and that would be good enough. So my question is, when I am sanitize my carboys, I fill them about half full of solution, swish it around, let it sit a while and then pour the solution into my bottling bucket and throw in all of my other equipment. I then turn the carboy upside down in its' drying stand and leave it until I'm ready to fill it.

Is that good enough or should I be really trying to fill it with solution?

 

[shecky]

No need to fill it. If you give a good enough swirl to get every spot, you're good to go. And you conserve sanitizer. Just be careful handling glass carboys.

 

[rarjr]

be careful with onestep. I learned a lesson many moons ago when I first began brewing.
Use it as a cleaner, but buy a sanitizer as well. I use onestep only to soak my fermenters to remove the ring. But before I brew I use starsan to sanitize.

 

[Rick500]

One-Step, as far as I can tell, is pretty much Oxi-clean. It's a great cleaner, but not really a sanitizer.

I'd get some StarSan at the first opportunity.

 

[LarryC]

Thanks for the tip on the One-Step. I thought it was a sanitizer so it's all I have been using. Guess it's time for a trip to the LHBS

 

[Duckfoot]

Oxyclean followed by Star San for the win!!!