"Denny Conn" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:3FBF9BBA.5FE57817@privacy.net...[color=blue]
> sozman wrote:
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> > So you don't reckon sodium metabisulphate, sodium percarbonate or[/color][/color]
phosphoric[color=blue][color=green]
> > acid based sanitizers are any good? I have only used the first two and[/color][/color]
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> > far haven't had any infected beer.[/color]
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> You've been lucky. None of those are effective sanitizers for beer.[/color]

That's quite possible, I have only brewed three batches. Then again I just
use water out of the garden hose to bring my wort up to the desired volume
for fermentation. The scary thing is that these (in particular the sodium
m.) is pretty much what the LHBS promote as sanitisers.

Being a newbie at homebrewing means I need to sift through the **** loads of
(often contradictory) information on the web and elsewhere and make up my
own mind. The info I have seen has been pretty favorable towards things
like StarSan (phosphoric acid based) and "oxygen powered" (which I assume is
largely sodium percarbonate).

I guess it is like PC backup software, you don't know how effective it is
until you lose a hard disk.

cheers