Sanitizers/Cleaners

As you probably already know, the three keys to brewing good beer are sanitation, sanitation, and sanitation. One slip-up in that department and you could be looking at an undrinkable beer. What you may not realize is sanitation entails more than just soaking your equipment in sanitizing solution! Before sanitizing everything must be clean. A piece of gunk from your last fermentation clinging to the side of your fermenter can cause trouble. Particles can trap bacteria or wild yeast where sanitizer cannot reach them and they will remain alive to infect your new batch. So do more than sanitize - Clean and Sanitize.