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indorph??

Post by beer gut » Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:06 am

Hi every one iam having a bit of a dilema my dilema is this.Earlyer this year i lost a whole batch of best bitter due to a peahnolic rection, the taste/smell was like T.C.P and far to over powering to stomach.This realy taught me a valuable lesson so i decided that i would not use chlorine based sterilizer i looked what else i could use.I was told starzan was the best to use but i did not like the sound of all the faff that comes with the use of starzan so i opted to use indorph however when i whent back to buy some i was told that indorph has discontinued.So i would like to ask the experts what would you recomend i use? i was thinking of Antifomin S but iam still not sure, i was told that i could stil use a chlorine based sterilizer and then use this other stuff to counter act the chlorine taste this stuff is called sodium ....... any advice will most helpfull. :? :? :D

SiHoltye

Re: indorph??

Post by SiHoltye » Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:31 am

Hello,

First off, and I guess you're up with this. A crushed campden tablet will neutralize chlorine/chloramines in 40L tap water. Negating potential reactions in your brew that give a TCP taste.

On plastic i use:

Once visibly clean with warm water and kitchen roll. Thin bleach, 5ml in a litre of cold water (so 125mls in a 25L fermenter), soak for 20mins. Rinse throughly with tap water, then a rinse with sodium metabisulphite solution. That is to say 1 tsps sodmet powder in 1L kettle boiled water, swirl it out, it neutralizes chlorine pretty much on contact. Suitably sanitized.

On stainless i use:

A medium strength soda crystals solution (read the packet) with warm/hand hot tap water. Use this with kitchen roll to wipe surfaces clean, can give it a 20min soak too, won't hurt. Rinse thoroughly with cold tap water. Then use a solution of 1/4tsp of Iodophor (available from Brupaks at HB stores) in 1L of cold tap water (scale it up as you want) to soak for 20 mins. It's no rinse so just drain it out. Suitably sanitized.

I'm not a fountain of knowledge, just gleaned this info through experience and it's been good for me.

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