New Itallian made glass carboy, dust in glass?

bbell21 · May 6, 2016

Hey everyone so I just purchased a new 6.5 gal glass carboy, finally upgraded and when it got it from from Bell's Brewery it looked like their was dust particles inside the carboy so I grabbed some pbw and a carboy brush to clean and it would not come off, I rubbed the outside clean too and have come to the conclusion that the little "dust" specs are in the glass, is this totally normal or do you think there is something wrong? I don't know how else to decribe it other than little specs separated out throughout the carboy. Help please

maazak · May 6, 2016

Could you upload a picture ?

bbell21 · May 6, 2016

maazak said:
Could you upload a picture ?

I can but the specs won't show, from different things I have read I heard it could be tiny bubbles in the glass? There are probably 100's of ball point specs throughout the carboy

bbell21 · May 6, 2016

Basically I wanted to know if you look at your glass carboy in the light can you see tiny specs on yours?

day_trippr · May 6, 2016

bbell21 said:
Basically I wanted to know if you look at your glass carboy in the light can you see tiny specs on yours?

Absolutely. I have six 6.5g Italian carboys 12-15 years old and if I hold a bright light behind any of them, what appears to be dust particle size bubbles show up pretty clearly. Nbd...

Cheers!