Hi. I'm Mark Emiley on behalf of Expert Village.
In this segment were going to talk about what
you need to know to get ready for brewing.
In particular were going to talk about cleaning
sanitization. Cleaning is getting all the
major debris off of your equipment. This needs
to be done to everything. This means just
molt matter, this means hot matter. This means
any kind of dirt which is on your equipment.
Sanitization on the other hand is trying to
kill the microbes that exist on your equipment.
This requires a further level of cleanliness
as it goes beyond cleaning and into the killing
stage. Sterilization is impossible for brewing
as this involves killing every microbe, which
is not going to happen, but if you maintain
a sanitary environment this is going to be
the best thing thing that you could do for
your beer. There are many different products
available which can help you with cleaning
and sanitization. For mainly cleaning, one
of them is Straight A. Which helps break up
a lot of organic matter. You can use this
as a rate of one tablespoon per gallon for
cleaning very very many of your materials.
The most readily available of cleaner out
there is Clorox bleach. Which works as a cleaner
and sanitizer. At a rate of one tablespoon
per gallon it will help break out bio matter
and also sanitize your equipment. However
it usually needs to be rinsed out or else
you'll get a chlorine flavor in your beer.
