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I use a blowoff tube down into a bucket of sanitizer solution.  I have at times used a solution of CTSP and currently Iodophor as the liquid in the bucket.  Unfortunately the iodophor gives up the ghost before the primary ferment is done.  I am slightly worried about having a non-lethal to bacteria/yeast liquid in the bucket. What do other people use and why? thanks, dion — Staff Software Engineer     Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I use a blowoff tube down into a bucket of sanitizer solution.  I have at times used a solution of CTSP and currently Iodophor as the liquid in the bucket.  Unfortunately the iodophor gives up the ghost before the primary ferment is done.  I am slightly worried about having a non-lethal to bacteria/yeast liquid in the bucket. What do other people use and why? thanks, dion — Staff Software Engineer     Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California

 A weak bleach solution is the standard I believe; it is used by breweries.  Just use a large bucket maybe a quarter full of bleach solution and you should have no problems.. And of course make sure you use a large diameter blowoff tube, but you know that already. nimbus

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: I use a blowoff tube down into a bucket of sanitizer solution.  I have : at times used a solution of CTSP and currently Iodophor as the liquid : in the bucket.  Unfortunately the iodophor gives up the ghost before : the primary ferment is done.  I am slightly worried about having a : non-lethal to bacteria/yeast liquid in the bucket. : What do other people use and why? I use iodophor.  I don’t worry about anything getting back up into my fermenter because the fermentation gases keep a positive pressure in the fermenter.  It seems physically impossible for anything to get back into the fermenter as long as the gases keep pushing everything back out. |   |                   Kinney Baughman                         |   |   /                                                             /   |        "Beer is my business and I’m late for work"            |

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i just use about 1/4 cup bleach.  as soon as the foam dies down, i’ll attach an airlock.  also, the bleach won’t stain the bucket–if that matters. schmek

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