Hi, i asked my cousins to save all their beer bottles that weren't twisty tops. After a party they had, they left me a case of "Modelo" beer bottles sitting in the backyard for about a week or so before i went to pick them up. They are some nice little clear fat 12 oz bottles, and thought they would go great with appfelwein.
Anyways, I was heating up some water to put the bottles in a cooler, so that i can let them soak in oxyclean, to facilitate the label removal process. To my surprise i saw some nasty looking bacterial colonization at the bottom of the Modelo bottles. Im guessing the last few drops of beer, mixed with the humid weather for a week let bacteria (or whatever that is) grow at the bottom of the bottles. I checked the dark normal bottles (like real ale bottles), and those looked fine, it was just the Modelo ones.
Right now the bottles are soaking in hot water with oxyclean, and don't know whether these bottles will be good to use or not. I tried to rinse off most of the spore looking stuff, and placed them inside the cooler of hot water. In a few hours i planned on throwing in some iodaphor into the oxyclean water to try to disinfect some of that stuff. Suggestions? Does anyone think the bottles will still be useable?
Anyways, I was heating up some water to put the bottles in a cooler, so that i can let them soak in oxyclean, to facilitate the label removal process. To my surprise i saw some nasty looking bacterial colonization at the bottom of the Modelo bottles. Im guessing the last few drops of beer, mixed with the humid weather for a week let bacteria (or whatever that is) grow at the bottom of the bottles. I checked the dark normal bottles (like real ale bottles), and those looked fine, it was just the Modelo ones.
Right now the bottles are soaking in hot water with oxyclean, and don't know whether these bottles will be good to use or not. I tried to rinse off most of the spore looking stuff, and placed them inside the cooler of hot water. In a few hours i planned on throwing in some iodaphor into the oxyclean water to try to disinfect some of that stuff. Suggestions? Does anyone think the bottles will still be useable?