[flbrewer]

I saw a video recently where the brewer was simply spraying a sanitizing solution from a spray bottle and coating the fermenting bucket. Does anyone do this instead of filling the bucket with solution? This seems to be a lot less time consuming and a water saver.

[fmader]

I pour a couple cups of sanitizer in the bucket and use a clean rag dedicated to sanitizing to wipe down the inside of the bucket with the sanitizer that I just dumped in. I usually use vertices swipes around the bucket about four times around... Seems to work well for me.

[Stevie]

I add about a gallon and shake. I use RO and save my sanitizer across multiple batches.

[flbrewer]

I add about a gallon and shake. I use RO and save my sanitizer across multiple batches.

RO?

[wsoublo]

I add about a gallon and shake. I use RO and save my sanitizer across multiple batches.

RO?

Reverse Osmosis water; distilled would work too.

[klickitat jim]

It's about contact. Spritzing works fine. I fill, but I use it for other things like refreshing my spritzer etc.

[flbrewer]

I add about a gallon and shake. I use RO and save my sanitizer across multiple batches.

RO?

Reverse Osmosis water; distilled would work too.

Are you saying you mix your sanitizer with RO? Any advantage in doing so over tap water?


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[gmac]

It lasts much longer when mixed with water that doesn't have minerals.  At least that's what I've been told. 

[Stevie]

I stretch my RO based starsan out for 3 or so months. I dump it when it gets too low to be useful for bottles and racking canes.

[duboman]

I always have a 5 gal bucket full of starsan mix. On brew day I use it to keep stuff on hand and when im ready to go to primary I just pour one into another and then rack. Cover up the second one and store till next bree day. I can usually get about a month with tap water.

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[flbrewer]

Is there a need to cover up or seal mixed star san solution?


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[Stevie]

Is there a need to cover up or seal mixed star san solution?


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From what I have been told, yes. I keep mine in a spare "ale pail" with the lid on.

[gmac]

Is there a need to cover up or seal mixed star san solution?


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When I forget to cover the star-san in my garage I often find some well sanitized flies in it so I cover. 

I did measure the pH of some older cloudy star-san once and it was still below 3 so I used it with no problems.  Ultimately the pH is what drives the effectiveness from what I've read so if you wanted to measure all the time, I think you'd be OK but most of us assume cloudy means it's not worth using.  My tap water is very hard and I get cloudy immediately and it always works when I've forgotten to bring home some distilled.

[hopfenundmalz]

I saw a video recently where the brewer was simply spraying a sanitizing solution from a spray bottle and coating the fermenting bucket. Does anyone do this instead of filling the bucket with solution? This seems to be a lot less time consuming and a water saver.

Get it clean. Really clean. Spray it down. Repeat the spray if think it makes you feel better. This is what I do for my conical fermenter. For buckets I dump star san in and make sure it hits all of the surface by rolling/shaking. Can't pick up or roll the conical.

[micsager]

I saw a video recently where the brewer was simply spraying a sanitizing solution from a spray bottle and coating the fermenting bucket. Does anyone do this instead of filling the bucket with solution? This seems to be a lot less time consuming and a water saver.

When I used buckets, this is exactly what I did.  Even today with my conicals, I spray them down pretty good.