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Title: Professional brewery disinfectant 4 times cheaper than starsan
Post by: christhebrewer on August 15, 2013, 05:24:33 PM
Check this out on the public group buys. Could we muster five of us for a litre each, under a tenner?
Title: Re: Professional brewery disinfectant 4 times cheaper than starsan
Post by: Shanna on August 15, 2013, 07:53:16 PM
How about we start a list I assume your interested Chris so I took the liberty of starting a list and putting you and I on it.

1. Christhebrewer
2. Shanna - South Dublin
Quote from: christhebrewer on August 15, 2013, 05:24:33 PM
Check this out on the public group buys. Could we muster five of us for a litre each, under a tenner?
Title: Re: Professional brewery disinfectant 4 times cheaper than starsan
Post by: vonHolt on August 15, 2013, 08:41:15 PM
Hi,

What's the difference between a brewery disinfectant and the DIY milton/vinegar/water mix?

Not being smart here, I'm pretty new to this and just discovered the above DIY alternative to commercial sanitisers, and just forked out €3.something on a bottle  :-[
Title: Re: Professional brewery disinfectant 4 times cheaper than starsan
Post by: christhebrewer on August 15, 2013, 08:58:00 PM


"What's the difference between a brewery disinfectant and the DIY milton/vinegar/water mix?"

No idea, but at €10/l ,I wouldn't mind finding out.
I started with Starsan, which is great. I've been using bleach and vinegar lately which seem to work fine (and is stupidly cheap with tesco thin bleach and spirit vinegar)
It just seems silly not to try it, that's all. For a tenner? Go on!
Title: Re: Professional brewery disinfectant 4 times cheaper than starsan
Post by: Shanna on August 15, 2013, 11:39:16 PM
Was reading the group buy post and it seems that getting an proper bottle to hold this stuff is important. Anybody got any ideas on this?

Shanna
Title: Re: Professional brewery disinfectant 4 times cheaper than starsan
Post by: Greg2013 on August 16, 2013, 12:27:10 AM
Cheap centra bleach bottles for 70 cents, dump the bleach and rinse out ?
Title: Re: Professional brewery disinfectant 4 times cheaper than starsan
Post by: christhebrewer on August 16, 2013, 09:20:59 PM
Sounds good! I'm sure we all have an odd beer bottle laying around too.
Title: Re: Professional brewery disinfectant 4 times cheaper than starsan
Post by: onesoma on September 23, 2013, 01:50:23 PM
On the off chance this is going ahead, I'm interested :)

1. Christhebrewer
2. Shanna - South Dublin
3. onesoma - Shankill