• Alien Nathan Edward
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    11 year ago

    properly disinfect equipment

    I was into the hobby pretty deep before someone taught me the homebrewer’s axiom: fermenters are cheaper than beer.

    Idk if that extends to kegs and other equipment though.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Idn raw dollars, yes, but you are committing labor, which has a value. If you are being paid $60/hr at a job, theoretically you should multiply the hours of labor you put on by that value. Of coursevwe know a labor of love should not really be calculated that way, but it is a useful metric.

      I remember several of the brews I did were two-stage. They started inn a plastic bucket, then moved to a glass carboy. These produced more sophisticated flavors and clearer beers. That is labor intensive and adds labor and risk of contamination during transfer.

      Then there is the bottling process! That’s fun for the first 10 minutes.

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        11 year ago

        I think you’re missing my point, and it’s my fault. For clarity, when I say fermenters are cheaper than beer what I mean is that it’s a bad gamble to try to use a fermenter that may have pockets of infectious material in it from a previously infected brew. Better to spend $30 on a new bucket than to trash $100 worth of ingredients and whatever value you place on your labor because you didn’t want to spend the money on a new primary