Will be doing Denny’s Vanilla Bourbon Imperial Porter next month. A local homebrew shop mentioned sanitizing the beans in grain alcohol. Does anyone know if this is necessary? Thanks.
You don’t really need to sanitize the vanilla beans, at least I never do and I have never had a problem. Do you sanitize hops when you dry hop? Same concept. If you place them in a bag or something, that needs to be sanitized, however.
I have never sanitized the vanilla beans and I’ve never had a problem from not sanitizing.
Good enough for me then, thanks Denny