Best way to clean a Better Bottle?

[milldoggy]

I found the cap from water cooler bottles fit on BB. I snap one of those on and turn over. I also put a dishrag inside and swirl, that helps get the hard stuff off.

 

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[DocBrown]

+1 on the Oxiclean. I usually mix up a little over 3gal of Oxiclean solution in my BB, put on a carboy cap and suspend it upside down (I found a large stock pot that supports it pretty well). Let it sit overnight and flip it right-side-up for another ~12 hours. The carboy cap does a good job holding the solution in, and if you use warm water, you'll get negative pressure inside the BB as it cools off, which keeps the cap solidly in place (I usually open the spigot after an hour or so to keep the carboy from sucking in too much). With >3gal, the solution will cover every bit of the interior surfaces after the carboy has been upside down and right-side-up for some length of time. Also, the toughest spots are usually at the top of the carboy, which is why I flip it upside down first (while the solution is still nice and hot). Every few batches I'll take the spigot apart and soak all the pieces. Also, I occasionally switch over to PBW just to make sure I don't end up with an Oxiclean-resistant bug.

 

[freshhoarse]

+1 OxiClean Free and shake the heck out of it

 

[quadbikerjosh]

I did this about an hour ago on my 6.5 gallon glass carboy. I don't see why it would be any different with a bb.

Take a cup of plain uncooked rice and a half cup of baking soda then pour it in your bb. Add just enough hot water to male a slurry. rest the bottle on your knees while sitting (of course with a cap of some kind) and rock it back and forth making the solution swirl on the problem spots. You can shake it hard to loosen really dried up crud. When your done just dump the remains in the garbage disposal and rinse well.

this method takes me about ten muinutes to clean my 6.5 gallon carboy even after long ferments.

 

[RugerRedhawk]

If you have hard water expect oxi clean to leave a residue all of it's own if you let it set very long.

 

[AlphaPyro]

Didn't see this posted but I found a nylon bristle brush with plastic casing on it with a plastic tip at home depot the other day... Realizing no metal was going to contact the plastic I decided to try it out. Filled a fermenter up with PBW and hot water and drop the brush in there after shaping it to fit the carboy.. worked like a charm, I see no scratches. Last I remember, nylon won't scratch the plastic, it's the metal parts that do - so it seemed to make sense to me.

Brewing two beers tomorrow and trying this out, but realizing this post is older - if you check out home depot in the bathroom section somewhere you may find a set of two brushes, one conical and the other that looks like a toilet brush (made by GE), the wire parts are very flexible and easy to shape to your fermenters.. I left the big brush alone to clean the necks of the fermenters but used the conical one to bend and shape to easily brush away all residue and sticky stuff from the top and sides.. I used less PBW than the normal soaking method since I could dip the brush and scrub and then swish around.

Figured this might be helpful since EVERY SINGLE BREW STORE tells you to just soak your fermenters using 4TBSP to 5 gallons rather than only needing a table spoon for a gallon or so of hot water and accomplishing the same thing in less time.

Cheers fellas.