Star san bottle leaking

[Cjacobs]

Has anyone else had issues with their starsan bottles cracking and leaking on the bottom. If you have how did you deal with that did you put it in a separate container if so what kind of container did you use

 

[FatDragon]

Yikes. I'd probably toss it and send an email to Five Star asking for a replacement.

Okay, let's be honest. I'd probably put on some gloves, relocate it to some kind of container (a flip-top, maybe, after doing some research to see if concentrated Starsan reacts with glass), rinse the hell out of my hands and anything that may have contacted the concentrate, and then send an email to Five Star.

Either way, concentrated acids should never be allowed to leak. That sounds pretty dang dangerous.

 

[Cjacobs]

Yikes. I'd probably toss it and send an email to Five Star asking for a replacement.

Okay, let's be honest. I'd probably put on some gloves, relocate it to some kind of container (a flip-top, maybe, after doing some research to see if concentrated Starsan reacts with glass), rinse the hell out of my hands and anything that may have contacted the concentrate, and then send an email to Five Star.

Either way, concentrated acids should never be allowed to leak. That sounds pretty dang dangerous.

That's what i was thinking i know its not a suoer powerful acid howerever it will take the shine off of a laminate countertop

 

[Blacksmith1]

If it's strong enough to do that I'd put it in glass. No acid i know of is able.to.eat.glass. And if it is nothing I know of is strong enough to hold it.

 

[CallyBrewster]

I had that problem with the lid. Star San leaked into my brewing box, dissolved all the ink off anything that had a printed label and gunked up a spare 0-ring for a keg lid.

I re-assigned an empty plastic water bottle to Star San duty. Labeled it. Drew a Mr. Yuk on it, and then washed all the stuff in my brewing box.

Lots of that stuff was plastic, and none of it was the worse for wear (except for missing ink) so I felt confident that a plastic bottle would be fine.

 

[CKuhns]

Never had it leak through the bottom but about 50% of the time out one of the caps. Now as soon as i get it it goes in a glass liquid soap dispenser with a pump. The pump makes for easy dispensing.

 

[Cjacobs]

Never had it leak through the bottom but about 50% of the time out one of the caps. Now as soon as i get it it goes in a glass liquid soap dispenser with a pump. The pump makes for easy dispensing.

Ckuhns what do you use to measure it out

 

[kgranger]

This is the aftermath of a slightly open bottle in a leather bag. I know it should be fine in most plastic containers, but if it is capable of dissolving leather to a black goo, I'd play it safe and get a new bottle.

 

[madscientist451]

I'm pretty frugal with the star san, so my 16oz bottle is 3-4 years old and started leaking.
I guess that's my reward for tying not to waste it.

Anyway, I dumped it into an old glass salsa jar.

 

[CKuhns]

I have a small graduated cylinder that I use. 1 to 20 mls.