So I started my first sour in August, I added a Whitelabs mixed culture that had Sach, Brett, lacto, and pedio, I added some Alminac dregs as well...This is all fine, sitting in secondarry with a nice pellicle.
I did the primarry fermentation for this sour in my 6.5 g glass carboy, thinking that I should be able to clean glass well enough to then use the carboy for clean beers...wrong.
2 of the 3 beers I have made in that carboy sinse making the sour, have been "contaminated" and grown a pellicle. The 1 beer that didnt show signs of contamination was only in the primarry for a couple weeks before going into a keg, so it likely had the same contamination but I never noticed it.
The contaminated beers have a slight pellicle, they taste good but a bit fruity...I assume that they are contaminated with Brett. I have not decided weather to drink them as is, or sour them (one was a Belgin Wit, the other was a Dunkelweisen).
I washed the carboy well with TSP and have used 70% isopropanol, full strength bleach, and my usual star san multiple times...each sucessive beer still eventually shows signs of contamination.
I am planning to give up and devote this carboy to funky beers, but I want to know how others are sanitizing (glass and stanless) gear between funky and clean batches of beer?
Also, now I am afraid to rack these "contaminated" beers into my kegs...Will my kegs be forever contaminated with Brett if I do?
What is the best way to clean this equipment?
I did the primarry fermentation for this sour in my 6.5 g glass carboy, thinking that I should be able to clean glass well enough to then use the carboy for clean beers...wrong.
2 of the 3 beers I have made in that carboy sinse making the sour, have been "contaminated" and grown a pellicle. The 1 beer that didnt show signs of contamination was only in the primarry for a couple weeks before going into a keg, so it likely had the same contamination but I never noticed it.
The contaminated beers have a slight pellicle, they taste good but a bit fruity...I assume that they are contaminated with Brett. I have not decided weather to drink them as is, or sour them (one was a Belgin Wit, the other was a Dunkelweisen).
I washed the carboy well with TSP and have used 70% isopropanol, full strength bleach, and my usual star san multiple times...each sucessive beer still eventually shows signs of contamination.
I am planning to give up and devote this carboy to funky beers, but I want to know how others are sanitizing (glass and stanless) gear between funky and clean batches of beer?
Also, now I am afraid to rack these "contaminated" beers into my kegs...Will my kegs be forever contaminated with Brett if I do?
What is the best way to clean this equipment?