Thank you. That is a reassurance!
Made me realise that one source might be an agricultural merchant.
Apparently the change from very widespread use of iodine-based teat disinfectant has reduced iodine consumption sufficiently to raise fears about iodine deficiency. The amount getting into milk products might have been sufficient to tip over from deficient to replete in many of us.
The first time I ever brewed I used TCP... I was a kid. I think you can guess the rest :) Truly unique cider.
NT
Gawd - I remember TCP. Stung and stank.
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Well, did you check my calculations? (I wouldn't mind.)
Good point. I think the no-rinse iodine thing started with Iodophor, which is sold for milking machines & teats, among US homebrewers; then UK brewers realized Betadine was the same thing.
I don't think you can. I notice that narrow-necked things like bottles sometimes come out of the dishwasher with some gunge inside them even though everything else is clean.
For sanitizing large batches of bottles, it's worth checking out the homemade no-rinse solution that Charlie Talley of Five Star describes on the March 29 2007 podcast here:
I've done it, it's extremely easy to mix up 5 or 10 gallons which works great for soaking big batches of bottles; you just need to follow the simple safety recommendations. I wouldn't do it unless the bottles were already well cleaned inside and out, of course.
Five Star makes Star San, and I don't think Talley would talk about this unless he thought it worked. I generally use Star San, but I think this is a valid alternative.
Is it the Avvinatore model?
If you are leaving bottles to drip drain & dry, then Milton or Sodium Metabisulphite would work just the same.
Hell in m y wine I add metabisulphite to stabilise ... the minuscule amount left after drying won't harm your beer.
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