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Wastegate

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I use Potassium Sorbate in my Mead's. I was wondering if anyone has used it in your beer? I recently had a Scotch Ale go south because of an infection. The FG was 1.034 which is a lot of sugar for other buggers to go after. So I was thinking of adding Potassium Sorbate or even campden tablets to the secondary as a kind of insurance to keep anything from growing in there...

What are your thoughts?

Cheers
Preston
 
I am afraid to put anything more than irish moss in there. 
I have only made 2 bigginz both still in primary after 3 mos.  I really gotta bottle.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_sorbate

It's a food preservative, good for alcohol products.
 
Potassium sorbate disrupts the reproductive cycle in active yeast. 
 
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