Star San love

[turtlescales]

Sorry for the silly random post, but I just switched to Star San and HOLY CRAP I LOVE THIS STUFF!!! :rockin:

 

[thepartsmancometh]

Nothing wrong with loving the foam! I grew up helping my dad brew, and he used bleach for everything. It was a revelation when I discovered the alternative

 

[brushvalleybrewer]

I have strong feelings for it as well, but may I ask what you switched from to evoke such an outburst?

 

[iparks81]

Cant beat star san!...Love it too!
has never failed me once. not a single bug(infection) in my beers since I started using it...Let the Love be known!

 

[Iqbal624]

just bought my first bottle today. need to make sure that the keg system is really clean.
I've read great things. Can't wait to try it out!!

 

[turtlescales]

I had been using some sort of one step cleanser. I burned through a package of it very quickly, and at $5 for 8 oz is comparatively quite expensive. I wasn't sure if I could reuse it, maybe I could have but just didn't. That and I had to either wait for things to air dry.

I bought 8oz of star san for $8 after reading a thread about "I wish I knew when I first started...", being able to just mix up a gallon and re-use it is nice, and not having to wait for things to air dry is amazing. Mixed up a little gallon batch so that I could rack my single gallon batches to secondary and made some soda, and just siphoned the stuff back into the jug when I was done. I won't be buying sanitizer again for a looooong time, which means more $$ to give Austin Home Brew Supply for other stuff

 

[shelly_belly]

My 8oz bottle is about to make it past the 3 year mark. When your caps crack (and they will) you can replace them with soda bottle caps - learned that here.

 

[Ramitt]

Great stuff and really a bargain

 

[Dan]

Great stuff and really a bargain

Shhh.. don't let StarSans know that! It is great stuff.

 

[zacster]

Yea, the stuff works. I make a 5 gallon batch and move it from carboy, to my equipment bin, to my other carboy. I'll keep it through consecutive batches. I can't say I love the foam though. It makes some things more difficult.

 

[Ramitt]

Shhh.. don't let StarSans know that! It is great stuff.

True Dat!

 

[grouperdude]

never used it. Im used to IO-star, which has worked flawlessly for me.