Hey everyone, I am trying to decide whether I should continue running a sanitization cycle on my Brew Magic before I brew on it. I bought the system used and it came with instructions from a long time ago, back when they were still suggesting to do a protein rest all of the time. Anyways it says to run a sani cycle every single time prior to brewing. I am not 100% sure what this is accomplishing since everything is getting boiled anyways. Also, we run a PBW cleansing cycle and then a plain water rinse immediately after the brew is complete so there is no mash or wort liquids remaining in the vessels or lines after a brew. Also every dozen or so batches we run and acid and caustic cycle to remove all of the buildup that gradually accumulates over time. I feel like these cleansing cycles are more than enough. Anyone have any experience or opinions on this?
Sanitizing a Sabco Brew Magic before a brew
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Never heard of sanitizing the hot side prior to brewing, makes no sense to me. Sounds like your cleaning practice is pretty good...start brewing IMHO.
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No need to sanitize.
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When I bought mine it did have a sanitization step for the initial pre-clean.
I deep cleaned to remove machining oils and skipped the santization step. The only thing I do beyond that is periodically inspect the element for build up and periodically re-passivate the stainless.
