Grimsawyer
Well-Known Member
WOW!! I love that stuff. No more carboy brushes, no more bottle brushes and no more peeling and scrubbing bottles of their lables. A month ago I was at a homebrewer's club and I heard the words "caustic soda" and having a background in the cricuit board industry I was thinking ultra strength/you can't get it at home depot crazy strong caustic soda. In reality they were chatting about the stuff you get online for cleaning beer stuff. Got to chatting some more with them and they introduced the CHEAPEST but very effective cleaner one could buy. Powdered dishwasher soap. They used chemical names and really knew what they were talking about so I thought what the heck. If it sorta worked I wouldn't have to scrub out my carboy. I put about 1/8 cup of it in the bottom of my very krausen caked carboy and filled with hot tap water. I let it sit out overnight and dumped it out...... I never thought cleaning a carboy could be so easy, IT WAS SPOTTLESS!!!!!! OMG!!!! I URGE everyone to give it a try. Instead of paying a small fortune for one step, oxyclean, etc... try Cascade dishwasher soap. I figured if it worked that well on my carboy what would it do to those bottles that i found outside safeway.. you know, the ones that you can just tell are going to be next to impossible to get clean. Got out a 5 gallon bucket, 12 fit in the bottom perfect btw, shook 1/4 cup of dishwasher soap in and on the bottles and filled up with hot water. The next day the lables literally fell off, THE TINFOIL PEELED OFF WITH LITTLE TO NO EFFORT!!! and the nasty ring of who knows what poured right out. A quick rinse off and they are ready for bottling. If there is any one product that I have found since I started brewing that has changed my life for the better it would be dishwasher soap.:rockin: :rockin: