What is the best solution here?
Currently I do my best to use as little water as possible however due to the waiting periods, this is difficult.
5 gallons of water to sanitze my fermenting bin 5 gallons to sanitize my keg/bottles 5 gallons to make the beer15 gallons of water just to make 1 bacth of beer is in my opinion a little excessive....
Oh, on top of that there is the water used to merely clean the equipment afterwards and to rinse the sanitizer from said equipment!
What is the situation with reusing the sanitizing solution? Can I sanitize my primary and then use the same water in my bottles. My one concern here is that the solution could then be sat in the container for up to a week or longer! Is this okay?
I tried this in my last batch and ended up with a cloudy gunk in the bottom of the bottle. The solution I used was made using a powder (not sure of the name of what it is just now) so not sure if this just precipitated out. As a result I re sanitized all my bottles.
If I could reduce my water usage to just 10 gallons, then this would be ideal.
Thanks,