new used carboy - should I use it?

[calman]

Hello,
I bought this carboy last week used from a retired homebrewer. It's been in his garage for almost 10 years. Today after a good cleaning, I notice lots of white streaks, like hardwater stain, inside the bottle. I used a strong bleach solution tried to brush it away without avail. Should I use it or toss it away?
Thanks.

 

[Brewpastor]

Go for it!

 

[Mikey]

Use vinegar or CLR to get rid of the stains.

 

[Beer Snob]

Well you know it was not used for battery acid I'd go for it! Like Mikey said there are ways to get rid of the stains. Just be make sure all the chlorine is out now that you used a strong solution.

 

[AllHoppedUp]

I bought some used carboys from a wine maker that had a bunch of ancient s**t stuck to the inside. On recommendation from another brewer I bought some TSP (trisodium phosphate) at the hardware store and that got EVERYTHING out. It was cheap too - about $5. As with chlorine, just rinse thoroughly before use.

AHU

 

[parasonic]

Use it. :thumbup:

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

On recommendation from another brewer I bought some TSP (trisodium phosphate) at the hardware store and that got EVERYTHING out.

Over the last several years I've decided there's almost nothing that either TSP or OxyClean won't clean. I keep a supply of both.

 

[2nd Street Brewery]

I just got a couple of carboys from a friend who is no longer brewing. 2 7gals, 1 5gal along with a regulator and 6 corneys. Deal is, I am 'storing' them until he needs them back, in the mean time, I get the use of them. Anyway, the one7 gal has alot of whitish staining on the inside. I used Oxyclean twice, and a strong bleach solution while scrubbing. Nothing has worked. I was going to use it anyway and am glad to hear others say that it should be ok. On a side note I am not sure if I want to try to use the other 7gal one. When I got it home and was moving them around I kept noticing a foul odor. Took a good look at what I thought was an old stain on the bottom and found a dead mouse stuck to the bottom of the carboy I don't know if any amount of cleaning will ever allow me to feel good about putting beer into it.

 

[Jsin]

Wash the mouse out and make some beer in it. Once you get a batch or two of good beer out of it you will feel much better.

 

[calman]

When I got it home and was moving them around I kept noticing a foul odor. Took a good look at what I thought was an old stain on the bottom and found a dead mouse stuck to the bottom of the carboy I don't know if any amount of cleaning will ever allow me to feel good about putting beer into it.

There is at least a mouse ghost in it! Besides Oxyclean, you may need an exorcist

 

[casebrew]

Amazing that one little mouse drank the whole 7 gallons of beer....

Or maybe a dead mouse in his beer is what made your buddy give up on homebrewing? I've heard of skunky beer, and mousey women, but mousey beer?

 

[Walker]

Amazing that one little mouse drank the whole 7 gallons of beer....

Or maybe a dead mouse in his beer is what made your buddy give up on homebrewing? I've heard of skunky beer, and mousey women, but mousey beer?

and skunky women?

 

[AllHoppedUp]

and skunky women?

I knew a skunky woman once . . . briefly. :rockin:

AHU

 

[parasonic]

I knew a skunky woman once . . . briefly. :rockin:

AHU

I think that I don't want to know.......

 

[2pugbrews]

Wash the mouse out and make some beer in it. Once you get a batch or two of good beer out of it you will feel much better.

I think I read the other day that one style of beer in medieval times called for a dead chicken to be thrown into the brew (or was I dreaming it on Ambien)

 

[Beer Snob]

I think I read the other day that one style of beer in medieval times called for a dead chicken to be thrown into the brew (or was I dreaming it on Ambien)

Or you read it in the bible. He talks about it for about a page or so...