I just use dish soap and hot water, sometimes oxyclean if I'm feeling fancy. I'm obsessed with not leaving soap residue on dishes so I rinse like crazy anyway.
I used them as a dry hop in a rye pa last spring. They're long gone but I remember it having kind of a light juicy floral thing going on. Would recommend.
Well, the nail polish remover smell has mellowed into malt vinegar. I guess that solves the mystery. Maybe I can let it age out and dunk my fries in it.
I'm new to sours, and I wanted to get some going so I made up a starter with some weak runnings, dregs from a Petrus Aged Pale and a drop of sludge from my first sour, a Berliner Weisse made with WY 3191. This was on Saturday. It formed a pellicle and I gave it a whiff yesterday and the...