Passivating Stainless Steel Fermenters and Brewing Equipment Easy at Home

I first wash everything with PBW after each brew day and circulate starsan thru everything before each brew day. Works for me. Cheers

They told me to use Trisodium phosphate (TSP) .
Rinse with water
Then Fivestar acid cleaner #5.
Rinse with water
Then Fivestar Starsan

many ways to skin a cat hi.

Btw .. citric acid is also very nice for cleaning your equipment .. if it is not plastic stuff .. it is my usual method to clean my fermenters which are made of glass ... Found out that it removes all this nasty fernentation dirt .. also after cooking water to make it less hard it is a good way to clean the pots of course

I miss your grain to glass videos!

Meget bra video som vanlig

Hello doc! Great video..I'll try this!! A question...could you start the next video with saying " Hello! I'm DrHans and this is DrHans Brewery my channel about beer and homebrewing, I eat spent grains for breakfast to keep my marvelous body in shape"!? Thanx in advance. Cheers!! 😝👍🍺

A great video! I am moving onto as much stainless as possible & this is the first time I've come across passivate. So this was all new to me & I found the video very interesting. It left me wanting to know more of the why to passivate & the importance of passivating your stainless equipment. Which I felt didn't come across in the vid, so I will need to research this further. Thank You so much for teaching me something new, which I didn't know about before. 👍👍👍🍻🍻🍻 All the best and Mash On!

Cool video as always. Just curious what’s the maximum grain bill your brewing system can handle?

Hade ingen aning om passivering.
Rättstavningen gillar inte heller ”passivering”. 😀

Please use safety glasses guys.

great vid carbination in that glass looks perfect

Never heard about doing this before, may have to give it a go on my boilet. Cheers

Most beer and wine making gurus say that it's not good to use stainless steel containers for fermenting because the stainless steel contains nickel, some of which will leach into the finished product. Most of the guru's websites recommend using food grade plastic buckets as the primary fermenter.

Vilken temp har varmvattnet du använder?

Hey! Noce vid, I tried it with my kettle and something weird happened. Some black stains appeared both at the bottom of the kettle and on the side (like splash dots on the sides) do you have any idea what this is or how to remove it?

Can you tell my friend the nitric acid method ? I have a few liters 50%

Hi and thank you for this video
If I use Star san (at 4 times the concentration as you said) , when all the equipment is dry, should I rinse it or isn't necessary?

I got a small rust stain in my Grainfather. I don't know how I got that, but would be good to treat this with citric acid or Starsan to get this removed and passivate the inner surface?

At what water temperature I should do this?

What about the OUTSIDE of the pot, how does that get pasified?

Hi thanks for the video! Is it no rinse necessary after the passivation with citric acid? I have read many articles which suggest the opposite (immediate rinse after the treatment). Thanks

After doing this and allowing some time to air dry do you just rinse with water before your next brew or must you wash with alkaline cleaner?

Great video as per usual doc! Any issues using hard water as the base for the citric acid solution?

There's a lot of conflicting info online and I've seen some people say to use RO or distilled water.

My new local water is quite hard and high in PH. Thinking I would just use a higher concentration and for my tap water.

What you think?

Hvor ofte bør man gjøre dette?

How do you calculate 7% of citric acid to water? Is it by volume or weight? Thanks

Can you pasivate with starsan? Do you pasivate your kegs?I have so much stainless touching my beer should I pasivate everything? I have bright tank, pipes , till beer taps

Do you use caustic soda to clean your equipment?

I’ve never thought of running citric acid through my coffee machine until today, Thank you! I will be doing that soon. Also, great video on the Passivation process!

Can I use any old citric acid? My local supermarket sells Ball Citric Acid and I’m wondering if that’s good?