Oxyclean?

[cateck]

Planning on bottling my latest batch and I soaked my bottles in oxyclean with warm/hot water for about 3 hours then rinsed inside with a jet bottle washer and rinsed outside with hot water. they had a haze on them after they dried, I rerinsed but haze is still there. Are they safe to use? Will putting bottles in dishwasher no soap and hot water remove the haze?

 

[Revvy]

We call it scale...it happens a lot...

A quick soak in any weak acid, lemon juice and water, vinegar and water, even a slightly stronger dillution of starsan and then anther rinse will help....Or just a major rinse...but weak acid solution works best.

Then of course you are going to be sanitizing them after anyway.

 

[atoughram]

Straight Oxyclean does that...

Do a search for home made PBW recipes. Adding a few ingredients to Oxy seems to take care of this problem.

 

[AZCoolerBrewer]

Crazy sanitation video guy soaked a brand new big glass carboy in Oxyclean free over night and had big bubbles of scale you could see deposited on the glass. I felt terrible for him since he is hyper OCD about cleanliness.

I have heard of plenty of people soaking stuff in PBW, but based on crazy sanitation guy, I don't leave stuff in Oxyclean Free for more than 20 minutes. PBW is clearly better, but the cost to buy it or the trouble to make a semi-PBW clone is just too much for me.

 

[berheidebrau]

If you have a dishwasher that can use the sanitize setting that works great... I clean my bottles with icy after use or when getting labels off, then the night before bottling day use the sanitize setting with no detergent and then soak in IO right before bottling...