WooBoy
Member
Hey friends,
I'm very new around here, currently working on my first brew (it's a kit, baby steps people). I was going to sanitize my bottles the other night but didn't have chance to go pick up the holy grail of all get out (Star San) so in a desperate attempt to get things moving along, I found that I had some 35% Hydrogen Peroxide kicking around.
I did some reading around online, and because I'm not a chemist, I was thoroughly confused on whether it was reasonable for me to use this stuff or not. Saw a lot about using 3% as a none rinse sanitizer, but as I had 35% I had to work with what I got, and didn't want to muck about with a none rinse method incase I make a mistake and poison myself......more on that fear to come ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
So, what I ended up doing was watering down the peroxide till it was about 9% hydrogen peroxide (1 part 35% HP with 4 parts water), sloshing that around in the bottles, and leaving it to sit for about 10 minutes. Afterward I rinsed the bottles like 5 times, shaking them all around, full rinses, then left them to dry for a few minutes (I know I'm supposed to let them fully dry, I didn't, it was midnight) then bottled my brew.
Because I was washing these bottles at 11 pm, it was a recipe for neurotic thoughts of accidentally poisoning myself when I finally try out this brew - so my question is: with that amount of HP, and having rinsed the bottles 5 times for each bottle, not letting them dry - is there even the remotest possibility that when I pop open these beers in a few weeks that could be any remnant of HP in any quantity that could pose a health risk?
I'll know next time not to do this at midnight, and to use Star San if I want to sleep at ease.
I'm very new around here, currently working on my first brew (it's a kit, baby steps people). I was going to sanitize my bottles the other night but didn't have chance to go pick up the holy grail of all get out (Star San) so in a desperate attempt to get things moving along, I found that I had some 35% Hydrogen Peroxide kicking around.
I did some reading around online, and because I'm not a chemist, I was thoroughly confused on whether it was reasonable for me to use this stuff or not. Saw a lot about using 3% as a none rinse sanitizer, but as I had 35% I had to work with what I got, and didn't want to muck about with a none rinse method incase I make a mistake and poison myself......more on that fear to come ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
So, what I ended up doing was watering down the peroxide till it was about 9% hydrogen peroxide (1 part 35% HP with 4 parts water), sloshing that around in the bottles, and leaving it to sit for about 10 minutes. Afterward I rinsed the bottles like 5 times, shaking them all around, full rinses, then left them to dry for a few minutes (I know I'm supposed to let them fully dry, I didn't, it was midnight) then bottled my brew.
Because I was washing these bottles at 11 pm, it was a recipe for neurotic thoughts of accidentally poisoning myself when I finally try out this brew - so my question is: with that amount of HP, and having rinsed the bottles 5 times for each bottle, not letting them dry - is there even the remotest possibility that when I pop open these beers in a few weeks that could be any remnant of HP in any quantity that could pose a health risk?
I'll know next time not to do this at midnight, and to use Star San if I want to sleep at ease.