Cleaning Home Brew Equipment

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Cleaning home brew equipment is usually something most brewers don't pay a whole lot of attention to... yet, cleaning is the most important step in preparing for a brew session...

I will venture out to say that cleaning is even more so important than sanitizing.

The fact of the matter is that sanitizing by definition can only be done on a pre-clean surface and cleaning is not just a matter of taking a sponge and wiping off the visible junk...

There are crevices in plastics and other materials which build up soils and you must remove those soils.

Not removing those soils will sanitize over those soils, but bacteria can hide underneath those soils and get into your beer.

It's not worth the risk... not when there is 5-6 hours of my time involved... so hopefully this helps you out...

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• cleaning home brew equipment

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Wine makers are allowed to steal tips from home brewers... glad it helped you...

[pathogenX]

First!

Great video, good information. I'm making a wine kit not beer, but because this is my first time, I don't know much about sanitizing. This video was very close to the detail I am looking for. The wine kit instructions, while good, gloss over the sanitization of the equipment, primary fermenter, etc.

Thanks for making this one, I'll be a subscribing to your feed!