I'm nearing the completion of my 10 gallon eHERMS brewery, and I was wondering what the best way to clean it would be? The brewery has copper, brass, stainless steel, silicone, and several washers made of silicone or other plastic material. I presume that the HLT and mash tun just need to be clean, but I had planned to pump the cooling wort through the HERMS coil with cold water running through the HLT for cooling. Would this be a bad idea? If so, I might build a counterflow wort chiller, but again I'm not sure what the best way of keeping it clean would be. Until now I've been a stove-top brewer, and cleaning has been a case of washing up a stockpot and a coolbox mash tun.
I'm just a bit lost as to which sanitisers/cleaning solutions are ok to use and which aren't!
