Overalls, mask, hair net etc?

[The Baron]

I have a shower in starsan and wash my clothes in PBW before brewing

 

[The Baron]

give you local health and enviroment a call who will come to your house/brew area and rate your place fro brewing hygiene just like the takeaways etc. Mine is 4 out of 5 I would have got 5 out of 5 but I also grow mushrooms in the same room as I brew in

 

[Bigcol49]

Hi!
I do think it depends on what type of person you are.
Some people are a bit OCD about sanitisation (a bit!).
Others, like me, do as little as is necessary (but then again, I do have Arseonchair Syndrome).
I have an open fermentation going on at the moment in a jerry-built wooden fermentation chamber, insulated with scrap polystyrene, bubble wrap and corrugated card. Every time I open the lid it must shower the wort with microscopic particles of . . . whatever!
I don't think that the beer will win any prizes, but it'll go down me clack, sure enough.

 

[Bigcol49]

give you local health and enviroment a call who will come to your house/brew area and rate your place fro brewing hygiene just like the takeaways etc. Mine is 4 out of 5 I would have got 5 out of 5 but I also grow mushrooms in the same room as I brew in

Hi!
Fuppin' 'eck! Every time I get equipment down from the top shelf of my brew shed I have to wipe off the cobwebs before I can use it. The Health Inspector won't even look at photos of the place!

 

[Pavros]

I seem to recall someone's cat jumping into his fv as he was filling it.

And isn't there that guy on YouTube who virtually strips and sprays himself with sanitizer before brewing?

I'm not sure what point I'm trying to make here...(but, in my defence, etc etc)

Oh, I remember now! - the point is that, even after all of that nonsense, the beer still turned out as drinkable.

 

[MickDundee]

My new brewing room is the same room as we keep the cats’ litter tray. Probably the OP’s worst nightmare!

 

[brumbrew]

In all seriousness, though, whatever you do it can't be as bad as the bloke who accidentally dropped a dirty j-cloth in the fv without noticing.

I remember this one

 

[Bigcol49]

Hi!
Here's a photo of me getting ready to brew:

 

[Druncan]

We are used to commercial catering and I tend to adopt similar standards as it is a food we are producing although as it has been pointed out it is relatively low risk. So yes, I wash my hands religiously and wear nitrile gloves an apron and minimise any risk of bacterial infection as it makes sense. I sanitise all surfaces. I run a HEPA air filtration system when brewing with all doors shut as I had a problem with our wild yeast in my brews. This has now been sorted! My other reason for PPE is the dangerous chemicals I work with so safety goggles as well,,,

@ACBEV ,,, now looking for a PPE codpiece maybe this?

 

[Dode]

Hi!
Is that the suit with only one button?

Heehee, the button fell off

 

[Gunge]

I seem to recall someone's cat jumping into his fv as he was filling it.

I had a tom cat dive into an open FV of stout whilst it was left unattended for a moment. Beer turned out great... I've never understood this obsession with sterility and stuff. My approach is as basic as you like and I've never had an infected brew in over 35 years.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I bloke at work who got me into home brew years ago never used to sterilise his bottles he swilled them out with hot tap water after the drinking session then on bottling day gave them a swill out with cold tap water and swears he never had a bottle or batch go bad was he lucky or are we all (as has been said) a little OCD when it comes to sanitisation?

 

[chthon]

Restaurants are also something not to think too closely about. Do you believe the prep cooks work in silence when they prep the food for the day? No, they do not. They are spitting on the food with every hard consonant they utter. We don't even need to talk about hand washing.

The best you can hope for is that the disease or unwanted substance, swarming all over your food or stuck to it, gets cooked to death on the grill or boiled or fried before you get it--so you probably shouldn't order a salad.

My brother used to work for a company which delivered supplies to restaurants. He told me that from all the restaurants where they delivered, there were only a couple that he would want to eat at.

 

[DavidDetroit]

only a couple that he would want to eat at.

I agree with your brother on that. Though I was having fun with my post earlier, all in all, people are better off eating at home.

After twelve years in the business, I have an infinity of restaurant stories; more than a few would have people thinking twice before walking through that restaurant door. I'm not counting the super-nice/expensive places since I can't speak to those.

Do you guys have White Castle? Popular fast-food here. Small, greasy burgers, basically. "Good" junk food once in a great while. Anyway, I got sick as a dog about an hour after eating. I won't go into detail but, fortunately, my toilet is right by the bathtub. It was at least 6 hours of "extremely unpleasant." Part of the time, I was wondering what exactly it was that I ate, and the other part, How much worse does it have to get before I go to the doctor? Needless to say, I haven't eaten that since.

 

[Clint]

No...we have Newcastle,Windsor Castle,a few Castles in Wales and we used to have a Roy Castle but no White Castle.
I like a takeaway..usually Indian but some people's idea of clean is a world away...

 

[Druncan]

My brother used to work for a company which delivered supplies to restaurants. He told me that from all the restaurants where they delivered, there were only a couple that he would want to eat at.

Our gas service engineer shared some of his clients equipment pictures of cookers with toasted mice under the hob splash plate. He said ours was the cleanest he had seen all year. This was really worrying as we have not properly cleaned up after our closing event,,,,, I could tell more tales of dodgy catering, but there are bad and good in all walks of business.

Generally if you want to succeed and not end up in court for selling food with undeclared allergens or, dirty premises you are careful and respect you customers who sustain your lifestyle.

 

[LED_ZEP]

I make sure that I tip every completed batch of wine straight down the sink so it's not hanging around waiting to cross contaminate the next batch!

 

[Drunkula]

I strip off and get my mum to slather me in goose fat, then I slither around the brewery with ease. The bugs just can't catch me cos I'm such a slippery mofo. I then corall the yeast one by one into the wort with clicks and whistles and the aid of a trained tardigrade called Minksy Baba.

 

[Dode]

I make sure that I tip every completed batch of wine straight down the sink so it's not hanging around waiting to cross contaminate the next batch!

Please don't do that around me, we'll fall out