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Hello everyone. After homebrewing for a year or so, I decided to upgrade from my plastic bucket to a glass carboy. After much excitement and anticipation, I purchased said carboy and then my worst nightmare happened.
Upon my very first attempt to clean out the carboy on brew day, even with a carboy handle installed and in use, the carboy slipped out of my hand and fell the maybe 1 inch to the floor and shattered instantly on impact!
After sulking and weeping all day and resigning to using my old "Ale Pale" with a not-so-good lid seal one more time, I've decided I want to get another carboy.
Since I'd obviously like to avoid this nightmare from happening again, I was wondering how others clean and sanitize their carboys before use. My episode happened in the bath tub where the carboy slipped and hit the metal drain plug sticking up so.... I gather no more bath tub cleaning.
Any advice would be great.
PS. Any leads on CHEAP carboys would be appreciated too
Upon my very first attempt to clean out the carboy on brew day, even with a carboy handle installed and in use, the carboy slipped out of my hand and fell the maybe 1 inch to the floor and shattered instantly on impact!
After sulking and weeping all day and resigning to using my old "Ale Pale" with a not-so-good lid seal one more time, I've decided I want to get another carboy.
Since I'd obviously like to avoid this nightmare from happening again, I was wondering how others clean and sanitize their carboys before use. My episode happened in the bath tub where the carboy slipped and hit the metal drain plug sticking up so.... I gather no more bath tub cleaning.
Any advice would be great.
PS. Any leads on CHEAP carboys would be appreciated too