Starsan for Mexican water

[JONNYROTTEN]

Heading to Mexico and might bring a cooler with Ice and beers to the beach. The wife had a good point that Mexican ice water will be all over the beer from where we're drinking. Don't trust that the ice is safe.
If I brought a little bottle of Starsan and spritzed the top of the beer before drinking would that INSURE that we wont get Montezumas Revenge and will kill all bacteria....cause that would be sh*tty.
Got Montezumas revenge in Dominican Republic...its nothing I want to experience again

 

[SoCal-Doug]

I would use bleach. And don't forget a bullet proof vest.

 

[bigplunkett]

I say just use frozen water bottles. Or icepacks so u dont **** your self to death.

 

[ancientmariner52]

Maybe some antibacterial wet wipes? Might be easier to explain to customs.

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

Bleach water in the cooler...not happening
Frozen water bottles never seem to give that ice cold feeling

 

[SoCal-Doug]

I suppose some starsan might be better than nothing. But if one live cell gets by, you are in for an explosive #3

 

[Croesius]

I've spent a fairly good amount of time in Mexico, and the ice has always been clean. Never had a single problem with it. Make sure it is the machine formed pieces, don't trust any homemade ice cubes.

 

[treacheroustexan]

I think you're fine, especially if it's just ice that is chilling your canned/bottled beer. If you can tell by the shape of the ice, you can normally tell if it's from a filtered machine, as stated above.

 

[RM-MN]

I suppose some starsan might be better than nothing. But if one live cell gets by, you are in for an explosive #3

Not quite. It takes time for bacteria to multiply. Your body take in food at regular intervals and expels the indigestible part fairly soon, sooner than the bacteria can multiply sufficiently from a single cell. If that were not the case you wouldn't be able to make beer because it takes time for the yeast to multiply too and I'll bet that more than one bacteria cell got into the fermenter and started to multiply too.

 

[duelerx]

Mexican here, it is more probable that you get Moctezuma revenge by eating tacos or unluckily eating a bad food in a hotel than buying bags of ice cubes in a store as oxxo.

 

[AZCoolerBrewer]

I agree with the previous poster’s suggestion that exposure levels are important. People swim in places where the water isn’t particularly potable. Drinking a pint of bad water and incidental contact are vastly different. Just don’t use the ice to float in your drink and you’ll be fine. Montezuma’s revenge come from a parasite anyway. You can just wipe the ice juice off the neck and mouth of the bottle to ensure there are no pathogens on the bottle before you drink it.

 

[Shwagger]

Mexican ice is safe

 

[triethylborane]

if it hits - doubtful from the scenraio presented - ciprofloxacin at the pharmacia 500mg 2x a day for 3 days, if allergic to cipro then azithromycin. Usually the pharmacist can give you options.