Appropriate Star San Mix and the amount to use?

[nnylf18]

Hi all, I am planning to do my first brew tomorrow and I have bought some Star San after reading many good reviews on this site. There is a lot of posts with different star san:water ratios, I have a 500ml spray bottle and I have mixed approx. 1ml of star san to 500ml of Tesco Ashbeck water and gave it a shake and it is ready to go for tomorrow evening - is this an ok mix or should i be adding more/less star san? I was planning on putting the equipment (spoon, air lock, hydrometer) into the fermenter and then spray the inside of the fermenter and equipment then pour excess gathered at the bottom back into the spray bottle (via tap so it gets sterilised) and repeat.

Then refill spray bottle again with excess and clean the draining board (standard aluminium) and stack the fermenter and equipment to drip dry. Will this be sufficient? Will it take more than 500ml? I have been reading some other posts that mention making up 2-5 gallons but this seems a waste of star san and storage space. Any advice will be most appreciated. Thanks.

[nnylf18]

Thanks, the link covers everything!

[nnylf18]

Hi, just an update, I sanitised my equipment yesterday using SS and a spray bottle with a 1ml to 500ml Tesco’s Ashbeck water mix. I sprayed the small equipment in the fermenter then placed to drip dry then continued to spray the inside of the fermenter for a few minutes. When I finished I had more than half the spray bottle left. I started to get a bit paranoid so I repeated these steps then let everything dry and began to mix the brew. I hope this was sufficient and I will let you know the results but currently there is a nice foamy head developing in the fermenter, no bubbles in the airlock yet, but I guess this is ok?

[nnylf18]

...I meant to add I've still 150ml left in the spray bottle! If this is a sufficent amount to use to sanitise and it works this Star San stuff goes a long way!!