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This is the only way to sterilize your carboy This is the only way to sterilize your carboy



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Old 02-08-2012, 01:45 AM   #1
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Old 02-08-2012, 01:47 AM   #2
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I've done that with nitromethane. Good times!

(Caution, nitromethane will burn off your face and possibly kill your mom)
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wait, doesn't he drop the match into the carboy? has the match been sanitized?!?

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Do it with a plastic bottle and it will bounce a few feet off the ground.

But that is unlikely to sterilize the carboy anyways.
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looks like a good way to break a carboy to me
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