10 Home Brewing Tips, Recommendations, and Hacks – Week 1

I was working to share knowledge I’ve learned over the years and to inform on things every home brewer should be aware of from Beginners to Advanced and I quickly went from a top 10 to over 100 tips, recommendations, tricks, hacks, suggestions and realized that many home brewers know some of these but not all of these.

I will work to share 10 different home brewing tips every week for the next 10+ weeks.

1. Keep It Clean – PBW and Star san
2. PBW Safety
3. Star San Safety
4. Star San Dangerous for Pets
5. Cleaning Bottles
6. Never use Bleach
7. Star San spray bottles
8. Keg Cleaning
9. Keg Cleaning – Check your keg
10. Clean Disconnects (special brushes)

These tips will range from cleaning as this one was focused on to equipment recommendations to procedures/tricks/hacks/tips using during home brewing.

Items or Equipment used/suggested in this video:
The Multi-brush set I use for too many things to list
https://amzn.to/33YmF6S
24 oz professional grade spray bottles
https://amzn.to/3mZ99sa
Dip tube brushes
https://amzn.to/3j3aY5b
Oxyclean (The link below for Amazon is usually cheaper than local stores.)
https://amzn.to/3j6LN1y
Starsan / Star San (Its actually two works so it helps sometimes in searches)
https://amzn.to/3i3kiVf
https://www.homebrewing.org/search.asp?keyword=star+san?AffId=557
PBW
https://amzn.to/30fCMfo
https://www.homebrewing.org/search.asp?keyword=pbw?AffId=557
Bottle Brush
https://www.homebrewing.org/Bottle-Brush_p_1224.html?AffId=557
https://amzn.to/3j8OcZK
SOS Pads
https://amzn.to/3cEJ3pJ
Scrubbing Sponges (non-scratch)
https://amzn.to/2S2L1a3
Bottling Tree
https://www.homebrewing.org/search.asp?keyword=bottle+tree?AffId=557
https://amzn.to/3i4c7Z3