Sterilising

[Will12283]

The way I look at it is, you sterilise/sanitise baby's bottles why not do the same for my beer.
At the moment I rise out the bottles after I use them then store away. When it comes to bottling day I get the milton (or any supermarket equivalent) get my bottle tree and away we go. If its good enough to clean my bambinos bottles its god enough for my beer. :thumb:

But I am looking at getting star San as swmbo is complaining I'm using all the Milton

 

[graysalchemy]

The key phrase here is "but hey, everyone to their own" and that's fine, I think you're wrong, and you think I'm wrong. So what? You're beer's fine and my beer's fine. (actually, my beer's more than fine, it's great. And very probably, so is yours.)
There is more than one way to skin a cat.

The Problem with that I have with that is that we are a forum which in the most part educational, we have a lot of new brewers coming into the hobby and they will read everywhere about the importance of sanitising, and then read your posts.

Why do you think sanitising is wrong? You say that you risk off flavours, but what off flavours? is it a particular brand or type of sanitiser? I can understand if you used a chlorine based sanitiser or bleach and didn't sufficiently rinse the bottles (or Fv) then you would get TCP flavours, but that is not the fault of the sanitiser but the method of using it. You don't get any off flavours with no rinse sanitisers like starsan or videne which don't need rinsing.

As for cost yes some of the proprietary brands from a home brew shop are dear but Starsan and Videane cost about £8-10 for a bottle but the quantities used are tiny. Usually a bottle of Videne lasts me 18 months.

It may be fine for you to risk your own brew but it is not fine for someone to risk their brew on your behalf.

 

[Ian...]

The key phrase here is "but hey, everyone to their own" and that's fine, I think you're wrong, and you think I'm wrong. So what? You're beer's fine and my beer's fine. (actually, my beer's more than fine, it's great. And very probably, so is yours.)
There is more than one way to skin a cat.

The Problem with that I have with that is that we are a forum which in the most part educational, we have a lot of new brewers coming into the hobby and they will read everywhere about the importance of sanitising, and then read your posts.

..... and then make an informed choice. I don't think anyone is trying to deliberately misguide anyone. I reiterate: everyone to their own.

Some other ambiguous information found on this site:

airlock v no airlock
secondary FV v no secondary FV
half a tsp v a full tsp of sugar when priming bottles
bottles or kegs
sugar v carbonation drops for priming bottles
A whole plethora of advice re yeasts and temperatures

Some people may find that confusing, others may like to pick and choose and even try out the differences. I came back to brewing after a 30 year gap last September and my, how things have changed. But thanks to all the good people on here (and a lot of conflicting advice), I made my choices and very quickly produced excellent beers. Beers just as good, and in some cases much better, than commercial beers. So thank you all for that! :thumb:

'.... and in the meantime, have another beer.' :