Would you use PBW or oxyclean

[DSorenson]

the mechanism for any of these solutions is time for the crud to come in contact with oxygen. The bubbling action is what lifts it off of surfaces. With that in mind I think you'd have to let your bottles sit for a day. Then you'd have to rinse them thoroughly.

 

[bobot]

When using pbw for bottles is it good enough to dunk in a bucket of clean hot water after the cleaning soak? Then let dry until bottling day. Use one step to sanitize prior to filling.

One step is not a sanitizer. It's a great cleaner, I use it for glass because it's not slippery like PBW. It's also advertised as no rinse, and I don't rinse it. I use PBW for all of my plastic, or otherwise messy stuff. (And I rinse the hell out of that awesome, slippery stuff.)

 

[BrewPharm]

One step is not a sanitizer. It's a great cleaner, I use it for glass because it's not slippery like PBW. It's also advertised as no rinse, and I don't rinse it. I use PBW for all of my plastic, or otherwise messy stuff. (And I rinse the hell out of that awesome, slippery stuff.)

I realize it states cleaner, but any brew shop I've ever asked and many brewers use it as a no rinse sanitizer. Myself included.

 

[Krovitz]

From what I've gathered reading threads on here, pbw and oxy free are basically the same except pbw contains water softeners. This makes rinsing pbw much easier if you have hard water. Oxy free with hard water can sometimes leave a white residue that some members have said is a pita to get off.

 

[bleme]

When using pbw for bottles is it good enough to dunk in a bucket of clean hot water after the cleaning soak? Then let dry until bottling day. Use one step to sanitize prior to filling.

I always rinse the inside with a jet bottle washer then toss them in the dishwasher (with no soap or jet dry) to rinse the outside. Dunk in Star San just before filling with beer.

http://www.homebrewing.org/Jet-Bottle-Washer_p_996.html

 

[orangemen5]

From what I've gathered reading threads on here, pbw and oxy free are basically the same except pbw contains water softeners. This makes rinsing pbw much easier if you have hard water. Oxy free with hard water can sometimes leave a white residue that some members have said is a pita to get off.

This^^^ I have some what hard water. I prefer pbw to oxyclean because I find it only takes a few rinses to get clean ( I hate rinsing stuff a hundred times). So I'll pay extra for pbw. A 4 lb tub last me over 50 brews

 

[kapbrew13]

From what I've gathered reading threads on here, pbw and oxy free are basically the same except pbw contains water softeners. This makes rinsing pbw much easier if you have hard water. Oxy free with hard water can sometimes leave a white residue that some members have said is a pita to get off.

So. If have a water softener and use oxy free, would that be the same as pbw? Hmm?

 

[user 19629]

I know a brewer who soaks his bottles in PBW and doesn't rinse them.
When I showed him the PBW container says to "rinse thoroughly" his reply was, " I rinse them in Star San"
He does make some really good beer.

 

[bleme]

And Star San is a very good counter-agent for PBW/OxyClean. I forgot some bottles in OxyClean for a month or so in my garage. They had crystals growing inside the bottles that neither my jet washer or a bottle brush could touch. I soaked them overnight in Star San and they came out sparkling.

There was no reusing that Star San though. I'd rather rinse and use my Star San over and over.

 

[climateboy]

Oxiclean is not food grade. PBW is. I don't use anything that is not food grade in my brewery.

 

[BigRob]

Neither cleaner is food grade, they're not meant for consumption or food contact, and thus are not food grade anything.

 

[kapbrew13]

Who eats chemicals?

 

[BlackGoat]

Who eats chemicals?

insert photo of chicken mcnuggets

 

[kapbrew13]

insert photo of chicken mcnuggets

LOL!! The pink goo. Right.