tyrub42
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Hi,
I have a brett beer that has been aging for 4 months and I plan on bottling it in around 6-8 weeks (not a big rush, so I'm just going by whenever samples come out with the same gravity). I had originally planned on using an old bottling wand, but I would rather be able to purge bottles and fill with my beer gun, as I've heard that brett can get gross when exposed to oxygen. I had originally assumed that was a bad move, but upon speaking with some friends, was reminded that it would be very easy to sterilize the metal parts of the beer gun by boiling and/or baking them without hurting the stainless steel at all. I thought I was in the clear, but then remembered the rubber piece in the front of the gun (the stopper). I'm in Taiwan, so there's no way to get a new piece, and my family is in NY, so there is no way I'm asking anyone to do anything except stay inside and wash their hands right now, so I wanted to ask what you think about using the regular rubber tip and then just giving it like 5 pbw soaks or something afterwards. I don't think it's safe to boil it, but I'll email Blichmann about it just to be sure. So here are my main questions.
-As long as I boil the metal tubes from the beer gun or bake them in the oven to sterilize, do you agree that should kill any stray brett cells that hang on after the initial PBW soak? If so, which do you prefer?
-Do you think it would be safe to use the rubber tip of the beer gun on one batch of brett beer if I clean/sanitize it multiple times afterwards?
Thanks! I know the general advice is to have separate everything, but I'm not able to buy a new beer gun just for this. I do have seperate tubing, fermenter, and will bottle from my boil pot instead of my usual bottling bucket, but wondering what your input is for the beer gun.
I have a brett beer that has been aging for 4 months and I plan on bottling it in around 6-8 weeks (not a big rush, so I'm just going by whenever samples come out with the same gravity). I had originally planned on using an old bottling wand, but I would rather be able to purge bottles and fill with my beer gun, as I've heard that brett can get gross when exposed to oxygen. I had originally assumed that was a bad move, but upon speaking with some friends, was reminded that it would be very easy to sterilize the metal parts of the beer gun by boiling and/or baking them without hurting the stainless steel at all. I thought I was in the clear, but then remembered the rubber piece in the front of the gun (the stopper). I'm in Taiwan, so there's no way to get a new piece, and my family is in NY, so there is no way I'm asking anyone to do anything except stay inside and wash their hands right now, so I wanted to ask what you think about using the regular rubber tip and then just giving it like 5 pbw soaks or something afterwards. I don't think it's safe to boil it, but I'll email Blichmann about it just to be sure. So here are my main questions.
-As long as I boil the metal tubes from the beer gun or bake them in the oven to sterilize, do you agree that should kill any stray brett cells that hang on after the initial PBW soak? If so, which do you prefer?
-Do you think it would be safe to use the rubber tip of the beer gun on one batch of brett beer if I clean/sanitize it multiple times afterwards?
Thanks! I know the general advice is to have separate everything, but I'm not able to buy a new beer gun just for this. I do have seperate tubing, fermenter, and will bottle from my boil pot instead of my usual bottling bucket, but wondering what your input is for the beer gun.