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As I say, I'm not an expert, but isn't there [i:162o5mf5]bleach [/i:162o5mf5]involved here somewhere?

"TheBeerNut":1b8d8yab wrote: As I say, I'm not an expert, but isn't there [i:1b8d8yab]bleach [/i:1b8d8yab]involved here somewhere?[/quote:1b8d8yab]

Only if you want it to be. I haven't used bleach in my brewing for many years.

I do use bleach, but then I use 1.5ml of Milton Fluid (used on babay's bottles) per litre of water, along with 1.5ml of vinegar, to acidify it and I rinse it off when I'm finished, even though they tell me you don't actually have to.

Other than that, it's just water, malted barley, hops and yeast.

Actually, that's a lie. I sometimes also use malted wheat, flaked wheat, roasted barley, sugar, rolled oats, ground coriander, cinnamon, cardamom seeds, carrageen moss, curacao orange peel, fresh fruit, frozen fruit and a bunch of other stuff I probably forgot.

But mostly it's just water, malted barley, hops and yeast.

Oh and welcome to the board TheBeerNut.

Séan

"sbillings":1cy7srlj wrote:
Other than that, it's just water, malted barley, hops and yeast.

Actually...[/quote:1cy7srlj]

Ha! I thought that wad going to turn into the 'Spanish Inquisition' sketch.

We use only four ingredients: water, malted barley, hops and yeast. Oh and roasted barley. We use five ingredients, water, malted ba.., oh wait, and wheat. We use six..


Anyway, welcome Mr. Nut. This site isn't all about brewing, so I'm sure you'll have plenty of opinion to offer.

Is that 1.5ml of vinegar in total or per litre of water?

Per litre of water, just like the bleach.

Whenever I mention this stuff I feel I should add this warning.

Add the bleach to the water, then add the vinegar to the water.

Do NOT add the vinegar to the bleach, as that will result in toxic chlorine gas, which they used on each other in World War 1.