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Cleaning products Fall Bright, The Winemakers Shoppe One Step: No rinse cleaner. Dissolve 1 tablespoon of One Step in 1 gallon of warm water. Wash bottles and equipment with the solution. Rinsing is not necessary with One Step. It cleans with oxygen (release) and does not contain chlorine, bisulfate's, organic compounds or phosphates. B-Brite: Dissolve one tablespoon of B-Brite per gallon of warm water. Wash equipment with B-Brite solution and then rinse with clear, cold water. Cleans with active oxygen. Does not contain chlorine or bisulfite. Effectively removes beerstone and other fermentation residues.
C Brite: Clean object to be sanitized with 1-2 packets of C-Brite in 2 gallons of warm water and rinse well with potable water.
It may be necessary to remove beer stool, gross filth and heavy soil from the surface by a pre-scrape, pre-flush and where necessary a pre soak treatment. Straight A: for simple cleaning. Dissolve 1 tablespoon of Straight A in 1 gallon of warm water. Wash bottles and equipment with solution. Rinse with hot water. For removing labels and stubborn deposits, use 2 tablespoons of Straight A per gallon of water. Most labels will lift off after 5 minutes of soak time. See bottling for more label removal help. Chlorine: Chlorine has its place in cleaning! To disinfect for drinking, one uses ten (10) drops of chorine in 1 gallon of water. An excellent cleaning solution is 2 tablespoons of household bleach in one gallon of water. The surfaces of everything can be irrigated with this solution and left to stand a few minutes, then rinsed with very hot water, followed by 2 – 3 thorough rinses of cold water, then flooded with a stock solution of potassium metabisulfite (3 oz. of potassium metabisulfite powder in 1 gallon of water). The meta solution in itself can be used as a sanitizing agent, however, when used after chlorine has been thoroughly rinsed, it will "blow-off" any residual chlorine and a cold rinse will eliminate the metabisulfite and leave everything ready for winemaking or brewing. For cleaning stubborn wine/beer-making items, it (chlorine) can be used much stronger. If used straight or in a stronger solution, rinse several times with cold water, (be careful of hot water rinses with glass jugs!) and neutralize with a meta/citric solution. Chlorine is more soluble in cold water. Hot water rinses create more fumes and may crack your glass container. Potassium Metabisulfite/Citric Acid Cleaning solution: Caution: Be careful of fumes! Tom likes to use 300ppm of meta and 1% solution of Citric Acid. In one gallon of water he uses 1/2 teaspoon of meta and 1 1/3 ounce of citric acid. Some text recommend equal parts. What ever you do, when you add the citric acid to a meta solution be careful where your nose is. Sudden fumes are over- powering.
Rinsers that attach to faucets aid in this end of the cleaning. We carry Fermtech Single Blast, the Double Blast and Ken's Brass Bottle Rinser. Check them out. Fermtech double blast: |