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Clean and Sanitize

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One of the best ways to insure that your home brew turns out the way that you intended is to make sure that you start clean and stay clean! Making sure your equipment and bottles are clean is an essential part of the whole brewing process. One little bug can multiply quickly and cause an infection that will ruin the beer you spent so much time, money and effort into brewing and conditioning. Below is quick list of cleaners and sanitizers that can help you keep things bug free.

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If you really want to dig in and get down to the science behind these and other cleaners check out Realbeer.com‘s A COMPLETE GUIDE TO CLEANING AND SANITATION. This guide provides more details about different cleaning methods then you most likely ever wanted to know, but it is a great resource.

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The Brewhouse • Re: Bpgreen update
Woo hoo. I just found 2 LBKs in a closet. Far from where I'd usually brew, so I'm not sure what they were doing there. Chat gpt came up with a couple of recipes, and I adjusted based on the size of the bags of malt I've got and because i asked for a 2 […]
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The Brewhouse • Re: Bpgreen update
The Munich malt is 60L, so i think that will work. I checked my hops stash and there was just over a pound of homegrown hallertauer.My brother suggested using CHATGPT, so i went there, listed my ingredients and asked for a 2 gallon recipe. It came back almost immediately with a recipe that it estimated […]
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The Brewhouse • Re: Bpgreen update
I *thought* i had a bunch of pellet hops (like a couple of pounds) in my deep freeze. I didn't find any because there's a bunch of food in there (why would i doi that? ). But i found some homegrown hippies in a different spot. I guess i can use those and treat AAs […]
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The Brewhouse • Re: Bpgreen update
Wow. The starter kits have gotten a lot more expensive. I guess the fermenter by itself isn't too bad (at least not at Mr beer), but i may wait until i can get to Walmart and look for 3 (or so) gallon bucket. At least I'm in good shape on yeast. I found a bunch […]
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The Brewhouse • Re: Bpgreen update
I have a closet full of various grains. I'm not exactly sure what all i have because that would require lifting the bags and finding the labels. I think I've also got some grains that i already crushed, but i don't think i really trust those. I would have milked them more than a year […]
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The Brewhouse • Re: What are you drinking?
My son came out for a visit yesterday so we spent last night emptying 2-2gallon kegs. I think there was only 4 or 5 beers left in each so we didn't drink a whole lot, just finished off 2 kegs that had been in kegerator for a while. One was a Honey Kolsch, the other […]
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