1st Bottling session with Starsan

[WishboneBrewery]

This was incredibly easy in comparrison to the 2 Bucket system I was using and soaking bottles for 10mins+ and instead of using about 50 Litres of water to fill the two buckets I used less than half a litre!
Cheers for that Youtube vid Chris.

I omitted the cleaning with Beer line cleaner as I always clean and dry my bottles after use so in theory they are still clean by the time I come to bottle again.
I used a bit less than 1ml of Starsan in around 300ml of water (soft water area, so straight from the tap).

I actually briefly rinsed the majority of my bottles after, but have left about 10 that were just drip-dried, and 2 bottles that were actually wet from a fresh spraying so I've got a bit of a control batch.

Bottled about 15L with 70g sugar and re-pitched approx 5g of rehydrated yeast (see if I can solve my carbonation problems with the AG brews)

[Jerry Cornelius]

Sounds good. Where'd you get it from? H&G are still out of stock...

[WishboneBrewery]

H&G, I filled in the bit on the out of stock product...
When they got it back in stock I got an email asking if I'd like them to keep some for my next order

[Shoit]

I omitted the cleaning with Beer line cleaner as I always clean and dry my bottles after use so in theory they are still clean by the time I come to bottle again.
I used a bit less than 1ml of Starsan in around 300ml of water (soft water area, so straight from the tap).

Is it ok to clean the bottles when the brew is drunk, then re-cap them and just use the starsan when it's time to bottle?

Kev

[WishboneBrewery]

You'd think so...
That is my thinking for this bottled batch, I'll see how it goes before I make it my regular way of sanitising bottles.

[Shoit]

I think i'll try a few bottles with this method and see how it goes - don't want to loose a whole batch due to infection!

Kev

[Scooby]

I've been using Starsan for over 2yrs. I dip and use or spray and use, I don't drain, allow to dry or rinse and have had no problems whatsoever with infection or any detectable flavours.

My 8oz bottle purchased Jan 2007 is just below the 2oz mark now so it's extremely economical