Brewery cleaning
Breweries fight a different kind of soil: yeast film, krausen rings, sticky wort, and hop resin on floors, walls, drains, and tank exteriors. Nature’s Wash is one bio-surfactant concentrate that grabs that organic buildup, encapsulates it, and rinses it away without petroleum solvents, dispensed at the dilution each job needs.
Yeast strains & malt
Every batch leaves organic soil on the surfaces around it. Different yeast strains and malt bills leave different residue, but it all comes down to fats, proteins, sugars, and resins that cling to steel, concrete, and tile.
Top-fermenting ale strains throw a thick krausen that can blow off through the blow-off arm and dry onto tank shoulders, racking arms, and the floor below. Bottom-fermenting lager strains settle into a dense, sticky slurry that coats valves, sample ports, and hoses when yeast is dumped or harvested. Spent yeast is rich in protein and cell-wall lipids, so it dries into a film that plain water smears around.
Wort splashes, boil-overs, and spent-grain spills leave malt sugars and proteins on the brewhouse floor, mash tun and kettle exteriors, and grain-out areas. Sugars turn tacky as they dry, and the protein fraction bonds to surfaces and traps grit. Left in place, both feed the microbes and fruit flies you don't want in a brewery.
Hop resins and oils from kettle additions, whirlpool trub, and dry hopping are sticky and water-repellent. They leave a green-brown, oily residue on floors, walls, drain grates, and tank exteriors that water alone beads off of.
The oil-loving tails of the surfactant anchor into the fats, hop resins, and yeast lipids in the residue and loosen its grip on steel, tile, and concrete.
The molecules close around the loosened soil in nanoscale micelles, and the surrounding water carries away the sugars and lifted protein.
The micelles stay suspended in the rinse water, so a hose, pressure washer, or squeegee sends the soil to the drain instead of leaving it smeared on the surface.
Nature’s Wash is a cleaner. Once a surface is clean and rinsed, run your brewery's normal sanitizer program. It does not replace CIP chemistry or a brewery sanitizer.
Fruit flies & sanitation
Fermenting wort, spilled beer, and yeast draw fruit flies to every brewery, and the sticky film they leave behind is where fruit flies feed and breed. The bio-surfactant in Nature’s Wash breaks down that yeast, malt, and sugar residue so it rinses away. Regular cleaning of walls, floors, drains, and the outside of brewing lines and fermentation tanks removes what fruit flies feed and breed on, which helps knock down fruit fly numbers.
Cleaning works best as a routine: rinse spilled wort and beer promptly, keep drains and trench grates clean, and don't let spent yeast or grain sit.
Surfaces & areas
Each setting is the starting-point dilution on the Fusion Pro dispenser. Confirm on site with a volume test. These are non-product-contact cleaning jobs. Your CIP and sanitizer program stays in charge of anything that touches beer.
Sealed concrete, epoxy, and tile under the brewhouse, around fermenters, and in the packaging hall.
Walls behind the kettle and mash tun, cellar walls, and FRP panels near hose stations.
Floor drains, trench drains, and grates where wort, yeast, and hop debris collect.
Tank shells, cones, legs, manways, and valve clusters, where krausen blow-off and yeast dumps dry on.
The outside of hard piping, hoses, pumps, heat exchanger frames, and hose racks.
Bar tops, tables, menu boards, glass doors, and taproom restrooms.
Before you start: the SDS lists strong acids, strong bases, strong oxidizers, and strong reducing agents as incompatible, so never mix Nature’s Wash with acid cleaners or peracetic acid. Rinse thoroughly between steps. Full dilution tables are on the 5-gallon concentrate page and the product overview.
The mechanism
Our proprietary bio-surfactant is on the FDA GRAS list. Each molecule has a water-loving head and an oil-loving tail. In water, the molecules form nanoscale particles called micelles that encapsulate oil, grease, and grime, so the soil rinses away instead of re-depositing. Each micelle is about 1.2 to 4 nanometers across.
Oil-loving tails anchor into grease and organic soil and break its grip on the surface.
The molecules close around the soil in nanoscale micelles with the water-loving heads facing out.
The micelles stay suspended in the rinse water and wipe, mop, or hose away cleanly.
After rinsing, microbes biodegrade our primary surfactant, sodium tallate (a tall oil soap), to carbon dioxide, water, and biomass. See the published data.
Illustration, not to scale. Step 4, biodegradation after rinsing, is described above.
The program
Install one dispenser near the hose station or mop sink. It fills bottles at 1 GPM and buckets at 4 GPM.
Set Heavy Duty and All-Purpose for bottles, and Floor and Heavy Duty for buckets. Run a volume test at your water pressure.
Add the clean-then-rinse step to your cellar and brewhouse cleaning schedules, ahead of your sanitizer step.
Production breweries can move to a 55-gallon drum or 275-gallon tote for fewer reorders and fewer containers to handle.
Proof & compliance
No compromises. No vague claims. Only results backed by proof.
NSF Nonfood Compounds registeredCertificate C0838274-02, issued February 19, 2026.Straight answers
No. Nature’s Wash is a cleaner and degreaser. It is not an EPA-registered sanitizer or disinfectant, and it does not replace your CIP caustic, acid, or sanitizer. Use it to remove organic soil from floors, walls, drains, and equipment exteriors, rinse, then run your normal sanitizer program.
On the outside of the tanks, yes: shells, cones, legs, manways, and valve clusters. Inside tanks and on other product-contact surfaces, keep your CIP program. If you clean a product-contact surface with it, rinse with potable water and sanitize afterward. The concentrate is registered in the NSF Nonfood Compounds program (certificate C0838274-02).
No. The SDS lists strong acids, strong bases, strong oxidizers, and strong reducing agents as incompatible, which rules out mixing Nature’s Wash with acid cleaners or peracetic acid. Rinse surfaces thoroughly between Nature’s Wash and any acid or sanitizer step.
The SDS does not list any metals as incompatible. Its incompatible materials are strong acids, strong bases, strong oxidizers, and strong reducing agents.
Rinse to the sanitary drain per your local rules and keep wash water out of storm drains. Avoid uncontrolled discharge of concentrate: tall-oil soaps can add oxygen demand at high concentration, so dump only diluted solution.
Splash goggles and nitrile or neoprene gloves when handling undiluted concentrate, with an eyewash within 10 seconds of travel. At working dilutions, latex or nitrile gloves are sufficient.
Tell us your barrel capacity, number of fermenters, and floor area. We will quote concentrate, a Fusion Pro station, and tip settings for the brewhouse, cellar, and taproom.
