I've been using oxy-clean to clean my equipment since beginning brewing. I switched to a generic brand, Truly Oxy Active (from Zellers) not because of price but because it didn't contain the blue detergent crystals. I liked the idea of oxy-clean because it has been said that it just uses oxygen to clean so it won't harm your equipment at all, leave it to soak all night, all week if need be, by the way, don't breath in the fumes or touch it with your naked skin, if you drink it you're a gonner.
So, I've noticed that my carboy has some frosting on the inside that roughly corresponds to the area in contact with liquid when the carboy is on its side. The carboy is second hand; I got it off craigslist. I would have assumed that the previous owner had left bleach in it for a while to get those results if it were not for the fact that when cleaning bottles, I unexpectedly had to leave them in oxy-clean for a week. When I came back the bottles had little bumps on the outside and inside as if they had been sprinkled with salt. I scrubbed the outside of a couple of the bottles for a while to see if I could get rid of these bumps, nothing seemed to happen. Also, I'm not the most observant person, but the frosting is very obvious and I would be mildly surprised if it were there before and I hadn't noticed it.
I've been suffering from extra phenolics with every beer I've fermented in this carboy. After overhauling my process, someone on a forum suggested that it might be the carboy. I was thinking of sterilizing it in the oven when I discovered the frosting and wondered if it had, indeed, been there the whole time housing billions of wild yeasts eager to get their teeth into my beer.
There isn't an ingredient list on the packaging but in the Caution it does say "contains sodium percarbonate and sodium carbonate".
Can oxyclean hurt glass? Do generic oxy clean brands chuck a bit of chlorine in their product for good luck.
Thanks for the help
So, I've noticed that my carboy has some frosting on the inside that roughly corresponds to the area in contact with liquid when the carboy is on its side. The carboy is second hand; I got it off craigslist. I would have assumed that the previous owner had left bleach in it for a while to get those results if it were not for the fact that when cleaning bottles, I unexpectedly had to leave them in oxy-clean for a week. When I came back the bottles had little bumps on the outside and inside as if they had been sprinkled with salt. I scrubbed the outside of a couple of the bottles for a while to see if I could get rid of these bumps, nothing seemed to happen. Also, I'm not the most observant person, but the frosting is very obvious and I would be mildly surprised if it were there before and I hadn't noticed it.
I've been suffering from extra phenolics with every beer I've fermented in this carboy. After overhauling my process, someone on a forum suggested that it might be the carboy. I was thinking of sterilizing it in the oven when I discovered the frosting and wondered if it had, indeed, been there the whole time housing billions of wild yeasts eager to get their teeth into my beer.
There isn't an ingredient list on the packaging but in the Caution it does say "contains sodium percarbonate and sodium carbonate".
Can oxyclean hurt glass? Do generic oxy clean brands chuck a bit of chlorine in their product for good luck.
Thanks for the help