Star San Mishap

Northern Brewer General
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Hello Everyone.

This afternoon, at the end of a nice little brew day, I inadvertently transferred 5.5 gallons of wort (Farmhouse Biere de Table) into a primary carboy containing approx. 1/2 gallon of Star San - please hold your applause. What will come of this? Off flavors? Total loss? Safe to drink?

Thanks in advance…

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I did the same thing. Couldn’t taste it. My innards didn’t explode, either. Should be fine. Report back!

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Thanks, learningmore – glad you lived to tell the tale. I pitched as planned and will report back with an update after primary fermentation…

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If you mixed the Star San as directed, you’ll probably have about a drop of it in your brew. It’s mostly just water. Hope there’s no chlorine in it.

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[quote=“Dan S”]Hello Everyone.

This afternoon, at the end of a nice little brew day, I inadvertently transferred 5.5 gallons of wort (Farmhouse Biere de Table) into a primary carboy containing approx. 1/2 gallon of Star San - please hold your applause. What will come of this? Off flavors? Total loss? Safe to drink?

Thanks in advance…[/quote]

At worst your wort must has been free from bacteria :smiley: . if you made proper proportions of starsan to water at most you only have ~.125 oz or ~3.75 ml of starsan in your 6 gallons which is extremely diluted. Like brwrboy69 said drops of starsan.

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[quote=“andjenliang”]

At worst your wort must has been free from bacteria :smiley: . if you made proper proportions of starsan to water at most you only have ~.125 oz or ~3.75 ml of starsan in your 6 gallons which is extremely diluted. Like brwrboy69 said drops of starsan.[/quote]

Thanks to both of you – that kind of perspective really, well, puts thing into perspective! Fermentation is going full throttle this morning, so hopefully all will end well…

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StarSan at those dilutions… after being diluted for use and further diluted by the brew will simplyturn into Yeast Food… cheers

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Now you will have a beer that you can drink by the gallon and not get intoxicated… :wink:

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I’ve heard of this happening before and I wouldn’t be concerned. Someone will correct me if I’m wrong but star san is a acid anionic sanitizer, and the acidity of it is LESS than that of a Mountain Dew.