Spritzer use for sanitizing

[seriousbeef]

..........No, not the drink

I bottled today, and filling my bottling bucket aaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way with water / sanitizing solution got me thinking. I have an old gardening fine mist spritzer spray lying around. I use a no rinse sanitizer with a 2-3 minute contact time. Instead of filling the bottling bucket full with sanitary water, would spritzing the entire thing save using all the water and do a reasonable job?

 

[Yooper]

..........No, not the drink

I bottled today, and filling my bottling bucket aaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way with water / sanitizing solution got me thinking. I have an old gardening fine mist spritzer spray lying around. I use a no rinse sanitizer with a 2-3 minute contact time. Instead of filling the bottling bucket full with sanitary water, would spritzing the entire thing save using all the water and do a reasonable job?

Yes. But you don't need to mix up that much anyway. I mix up a gallon or so at a time, and use it to just wet the bucket/utensils/stuff. It doesn't need to be immersed, just wet.

What kind of sanitizer are you using? Some, like star-san, can be saved in a jug and used for months. One gallon of sanitizer mixed up lasts me many brewdays. Some, like iodophor, can't be saved though.

 

[seriousbeef]

Yeah I live in England and there is an equivalent almost identical to star san. However its not a liquid, it actually resembles silica gel, its dry powder but its bead-like. Chemipro Oxi. About 4 grams per Litre / 1/2 lq. oz per gal.

This is good news, its going to make one pot go a long way!

 

[boscobeans]

Yeah I live in England and there is an equivalent almost identical to star san. However its not a liquid, it actually resembles silica gel, its dry powder but its bead-like. Chemipro Oxi. About 4 grams per Litre / 1/2 lq. oz per gal.

This is good news, its going to make one pot go a long way!

Chemipro OXI is supplied as a crystalline, water soluble substance and is a compound of sodium carbonate and hydrogen peroxide. This is similar to what is commonly called an OXY type cleaner.

STAR SAN is totally different as it is a blend of phosphoric acid and dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid.

I would use the first product to clean and then if available use Starsan as a sanitizer.

bosco

 

[seriousbeef]

are you suggesting that the product I use shouldn't really be used as a sanitizer? I'm a little concerned now

 

[ThatGeekGuy]

are you suggesting that the product I use shouldn't really be used as a sanitizer? I'm a little concerned now

I believe that's correct, what you're using is a cleaner and not a sanitizer. As far as applying sanitizer to your bottling bucket, just mix sanitizer with the proper amount of water in a small spray bottle like you said.

 

[seriousbeef]

Well, we shall see the outcome when the beer has carbed up. Hopefully there will be no hints of swimming pool!

 

[J187]

You live in England, but have your location set to "Massachusetts"?

Anyway, hopefully you'll be ok with this brew, but if it's true that what you are using is more like Oxi Clean, then it is more akin to five star's PBW than it is to Star San. Get yourself a decent sanitizer moving forward!

 

[oakbarn]

I also suggest that if you plan to keep diluted Star San that you use distilled water to mix it as it will last longer. I mix up 5 to 10 gallons every time I brew and replace our spritzers (I have two) with fresh solution then. I find it handy to spritz all kinds of things (Like the outlet on the ball valve when I take a sample from the fermenter. I spritz before and after sampling.)

 

[seriousbeef]

These are all fine tips!
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