Apparently Brewing is 75% cleaning.. need to look up that quote...
Cleaning steps for brewing : Clean, Sanitize, Sterilize
Cleaning
For general de-greasing and crud removal, word on the street is that Oxy is the thing. This stuff looks and behaves like laundry powder. Most Oxy products that you get from your local supermarket will be mostly marketed as laundry powder. In brewing PBW is popular and from experience rinses with water easiest but it is expensive compared to what you can get at the local supermarket. You have to make sure that you do not use one that lists 'perfume' as an ingredient or it will likely leave a residue that is difficult to get off, i.e. its designed to leave a smell on laundry after it is rinsed.
I use PBW for cleaning items that are directly involved in brewing. I use a cheaper Oxy cleaner for general cleaning.
I have also had a degree of success with the following product. However I no longer use it on bottles as I found that if left for long periods of time soaking, a residue can stick to the surface of glass that needs scrubbing to get off. And when you have to scrub inside a bottle thats when the fun really starts.
PBW
Oxygen based cleaner
Data sheet
Sanitising
There really is only one option for sanitizing
Starsan
No-rinse sanitize solution. Comes as a concentrate. 15-20 seconds of contact with the solution sanitizes and can and should be the last thing that touches surfaces that come into contact with your beer post boil. Popular saying 'don't fear the foam'. Its ability to sanitize pH based meaning that it becomes mostly innocuous once its pH changes. If you mix with distilled or soft water it will last longer as the relative alkalinity of hard water makes it less acidic. When its pH goes out of bounds, it goes a milky white which is helpful. If you have a pH meter you can use this to test if the solution is still viable.
Data sheet
Cleaning steps for brewing : Clean, Sanitize, Sterilize
Cleaning
For general de-greasing and crud removal, word on the street is that Oxy is the thing. This stuff looks and behaves like laundry powder. Most Oxy products that you get from your local supermarket will be mostly marketed as laundry powder. In brewing PBW is popular and from experience rinses with water easiest but it is expensive compared to what you can get at the local supermarket. You have to make sure that you do not use one that lists 'perfume' as an ingredient or it will likely leave a residue that is difficult to get off, i.e. its designed to leave a smell on laundry after it is rinsed.
I have also had a degree of success with the following product. However I no longer use it on bottles as I found that if left for long periods of time soaking, a residue can stick to the surface of glass that needs scrubbing to get off. And when you have to scrub inside a bottle thats when the fun really starts.
PBW
Oxygen based cleaner
Data sheet
Sanitising
There really is only one option for sanitizing
Starsan
No-rinse sanitize solution. Comes as a concentrate. 15-20 seconds of contact with the solution sanitizes and can and should be the last thing that touches surfaces that come into contact with your beer post boil. Popular saying 'don't fear the foam'. Its ability to sanitize pH based meaning that it becomes mostly innocuous once its pH changes. If you mix with distilled or soft water it will last longer as the relative alkalinity of hard water makes it less acidic. When its pH goes out of bounds, it goes a milky white which is helpful. If you have a pH meter you can use this to test if the solution is still viable.
Data sheet
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