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kwdriver
Joined: 19 Jan 2013 Posts: 113 Location: Eagle, CO
Drinking: Munich Helles, Schwarzbier
Working on: Guinness clone, Vienna Lager
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Link Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:25 pm Post subject: Sani Clean got sucked into my conical |
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So I just realized last night that my conical sucked about 2-3 pints on 5 Star Sani Clean through the blow off tube. I cold crashed the beer down to 35F using a glycol pump mod. Previously I had cold plates installed that took so damn long to cool (and certainly couldn't crash to 35F) so I never worried about such an accident.
I've gotten Star San in my beer before and it turned out fine. Isn't Sani Clean essentially the same thing without the foaming agent? I shot an email to 5 Star awaiting a response on whether I should pour the beer (because I could get someone sick) or just package, carb and serve it up.
Got an email back from 5 Star and said (legally speaking) I should dump it because they couldn't say whether or not the beer would be safe for consumption.
Thoughts?
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kwdriver
Joined: 19 Jan 2013 Posts: 113 Location: Eagle, CO
Drinking: Munich Helles, Schwarzbier
Working on: Guinness clone, Vienna Lager
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Link Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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UPDATE! I dumped all the beer from the conical but took a picture during the process. I plan on making a sign to put on my conicals that says NEVER AGAIN along with the picture of beer running down the drain.
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dp Brewing Company
Joined: 08 Jul 2013 Posts: 664 Location: Midwest
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Link Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe install a one way check valve. You would just need some way to remove it easily for doing transfers.
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11116 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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mvakoc
Joined: 19 Sep 2011 Posts: 152 Location: Evergreen, CO
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Link Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:23 am Post subject: |
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kal wrote: | Another option is to not cold crash until you've got gas connected. That's what I do.
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+1. I put 3-5 PSI during the cold crash to prevent this exact problem.
Early on I had a pliny clone that was crashing and my 1.5" blowoff tube had star san sucked up about 3/4 of the way to the top discharge point. The blowoff in the canister was far from clean looking. To relieve the pressure I pulled the tubing out of the bucket of star san -- causing air to enter and pull some of it into the top of the conical.
I'm not sure how much got in and I did drink the beer without noticing any issues, but from that point on I disconnected the top side to ensure the fluid drains down.
Now, as mentioned, I attach C02 pressure and remove the blowoff when crashing anything more than a few degrees.
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champ
Joined: 01 Jan 2018 Posts: 21
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Link Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 12:41 am Post subject: |
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"I've gotten Star San in my beer before and it turned out fine." Early on we had the same thing happen. Beer seemed fine. We called it our "secret ingredient". My son and I are still breathing! Since solved the problem.
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