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The voice of reason
Jun 13, 2002
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I have no idea. Isopropyl?

You know how much bleach you can buy for the price of star san?
Um, a 16 oz. bottle of Star San is on Northern Brewer's page for $11.50.

1 oz makes 5 gallons of cleaner, so you're getting 80 gallons, or roughly $0.14/gallon. I use about a half gallon per batch (including brew day, secondary transfer, and bottling). Sometimes a full gallon if I'm being wasteful.

For the convenience, it's more than worth it. How much is your time worth?
 

Pesqueeb

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A gallon of bleach is $0.99, IIRC proper mix is something like a table spoon per gallon. I'm not going to bother looking up/calculating how many tbls = oz but I'm pretty sure I'm coming out ahead. As far as time, what, 30 seconds to rinse something? Besides, we always have bleach around (two dogs, a cat, and a kid) but not always Star San/Iodophor/what ever. I believe that's how I actually started using bleach, ran out of Star San one day while brewing and needed something in a hurry. Went better than expected, never seen a reason to switch back.