I just brewed my first batch two days ago. The problem is that I used bleach for sanitizing my equipment and didn’t rinse them after. Did I screw it up ? The fermentation process is working but I dont if its safe or not
everything anyone might speculate is kinda worhtless
Thats too bad , what are you going to do if you were in my shoe ? Are you going to get red of it ?1/2 cup of basically straight bleach? Yeah, I think that's gonna have some affect. especially without a good rinse.
Some of us still do. But with a hot water rinse after sanitization.Bleach is pretty much what everyone used in the old days(1980's), both in brewing and restaurant equipment sanitation.
If you dumped most of it, I don't think you'll have a problem. If it's fermenting you didn't kill the yeast so I'd let it finish and see what it tastes like. Then decide what you want to do with it.The problem is I didn’t measure the amount
I just spilled some on the fermenter
I would say half a cup with a very little of water , shake it and spilled it out
Curious to know how tap water and soap would sanitize your equipment?Not a direct help to your issue, but I only sanitize with dish soap and hot tap water. So far none of my batches (2 meads, 6 ciders) have had any problems.
I am just too cheap/small scale to bother getting star-san or the equivalent...
Soaps are surfactants that bid to microbes and can rupture their cell membranes. Soap also facilitates the washing away of microbes by water (hydrophobic moiety binds to microbes, hydrophilic moiety interacts strongly with water). This does not sterilize equipment, but it gets the amount of germs down to the point where they haven't caused me any issues.Curious to know how tap water and soap would sanitize your equipment?
I'd toss it. Lesson learned.Thats too bad , what are you going to do if you were in my shoe ? Are you going to get red of it ?
I'd let it go, If it's fermenting it's going to make beer. It's quite possible it could turn out A-OK. In my past life, I used bleach 100% of the time for cleaning and sanitizing, never tossed a batch. I am going to go back to using it again for some things, it's not the devil some make it out to be. If you toss it you will not know what it might have been. There's always time to show it the drain if it needs to go.I just brewed my first batch two days ago. The problem is that I used bleach for sanitizing my equipment and didn’t rinse them after. Did I screw it up ? The fermentation process is working but I dont if its safe or not
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