Sanitizing Equipment For Home Brewing Porter Beer

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mark Emiley on behalf of Expert Village. In this next segment, we'll be discussing some of the sanitizers you can use to start to kill the microbes on your equipment. Next I'm going to cover two "non-rinse" sanitizers and cleansers. First, we have "One Step" which will help breakup bio-matter and also sanitize where you don't have to rinse. You can use that at a rate of one tablespoon per gallon. You also have "Five Star" which you can use at a rate of one ounce per five gallons and this will help sanitize your equipment. Finally, we have Iodophor. You can use this at a rate of one tablespoon per five gallons. It is a very effective and cheap sanitizer. At this point in the brewing process, you need to clean all of your equipment. But in particular, you need to sanitize, which is the extra level of cleaning. Your primary fermenter, and if you've gone with a glass carboy, you need to sanitize your filter as well as your airlock, your rubber stoppers, and anything else that will be touching the beer after it has gone cold. Later in the brewing process, you'll need to sanitize all of your racking equipment as well as your bottles, your bottling bucket and anything else that will be touching the beer after it has cooled. Whatever you choose for your cleanser and your sanitizer, I recommend filling up a bucket with it so you can dip all of your equipment in there as needed. "