Out of all the things you can do to make sure your brew day goes well, cleaning and sanitising your brewing equipment has to be one of the most important as well as the easiest.

Neglecting this simple task though is one of the easiest ways to ruin a batch of beer. I can assure you that having 5 gallons of sour infected beer is the last thing you want to happen. So with that in mind, I am going to cover the best tools and techniques to make sure your brew equipment is sparkling clean and bacteria free.

note: no bacteria that can make you ill can survive in beer, don’t worry you will not get sick from drinking beer.