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04-25-2008, 07:48 AM
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Location: Tennessee
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carboy or pail?
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For a primary do you use a pale or carboy? if carboy how do you get all the funk out?
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Primary:scotch ale
Secondary:
Kegged:Oatmeal Stout
Bottled:
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04-25-2008, 08:35 AM
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soap/water/brush
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04-25-2008, 12:21 PM
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Primary for beer, Better Bottle for Apfelwein. Clean immedialty after use. Hot tap water rinse, followed by hot soak with PBW or a cold water soak with Oxiclean for a day or two. Works great.
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04-25-2008, 12:28 PM
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Glass all the way. Lots of brewers have very strong opinions on this, but I think glass is the best way to go. PBW is your best friend. Overnight soak and anything that doesn't float off is easily removed with a quick brush. I like the turbo-scrubber - quick and easy.
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04-25-2008, 02:02 PM
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Better Bottles are fantastic, and they pretty much clean themselves if you fill them up with Oxyclean and rinse a couple of times.
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Planned: Fat Man Brown Porter (Pro-Am #2), WLP 351 Hefeweizen, WLP 860 Munich Helles
Primary: Centennial Falcon IPA (Pro-Am #1), sLambic I
Secondary: Flanders Red
Kegged:Himmel un Ääd Kölsch #8, Farmhouse Session Saison Pilot Batch, Chocolate Milk Stout, Pale Ale, Chili Smoked Porter, Berliner Weisse w/ Brett #3
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04-25-2008, 02:34 PM
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Location: Atkinson (near the Quad Cities), IL
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Plastic primaries...quick rinse after racking, add very little bleach, fill to top with water and let sit overnight. Very little to clean off come morning... 
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04-25-2008, 03:54 PM
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Location: Cincinnati
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I use glass carboys as primaries and no secondary. It's fun to watch the magic happen in glass. I clean ASAP and rinse out really well with hot water, and scrub with a carboy brush. The toughest part is the kreusen line. I then fill with tap water and let sit at least overnight. When I empty it out, I check to make sure the carboy is free of all residue. When I use it again, I usually give it a rinse with tap water-then a gallon of one-step solution.
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04-25-2008, 04:13 PM
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Location: Kansas
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It's a lot more fun to use clear carboys for primary (so that you can watch "the show") but I use plastic buckets because it's SO much easier to clean the krausen ring. Carboy brushes are a PITA, especially if you don't clean the carboy out immediately after racking. Plastic for primary, carboy for secondary.
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04-25-2008, 04:20 PM
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Location: Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
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Glass carboys for everything. Oxy-clean or PBW gets anything off.
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04-25-2008, 04:53 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Oblivion
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Buckets all the way.
I have all but given away my carboys. Primary and then straight to keg.
That'll change if I ever decide to add fruit or veggies to a beer
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