Glass or Plastic carboys

[ApresSkiBrewer]

I even had a dead mouse in one once, soaked in PBW...no more dead mouse smell.

Aww, man. You could have brewed the official rat pad brew.... Now improved with 100% more rat in it!


Mylo

Yeah but I wasn't sure when to put it in...at 15 minutes, knockout, or dry rat with it.

I would opt for First Wort Ratting... the more contact time the better!

[RJH311]

Glass, Definately. The problem with plastic is that after a while you get little nicks and crannies from whatever you choose to do in there. these little places are a great harbor for bacteria that will eat your your beautiful little yeasties and make your beer taste like old socks

[stumblemonk]

The only thing that touches the interior of my better bottles is hot PBW solution.

Glass, Definately. The problem with plastic is that after a while you get little nicks and crannies from whatever you choose to do in there. these little places are a great harbor for bacteria that will eat your your beautiful little yeasties and make your beer taste like old socks

[San_Diego_Matt]

Do you guys that use better bottles scrub them at all or just soak em in hot PBW?

[foomench]

I just feel like glass is a lifelong investment, or close to it. The better bottles are great, but I feel like at some point, I would be sketched out about the sanitation. ...

I've had one carboy crack on me, and I believe I'm pretty gentle on them and don't temperature stress them. I just noticed the crack while a beer was fermenting with a slight seep from underneath. I transferred the beer and pitched the carboy (out that is, not with yeast). I had another one slip from my hands and shatter. Luckily it was just filled with sludge at the time, but still made a big mess. Glass is long-lived, but I don't consider it lifelong.

Today I use plastic, glass, and stainless. I use the stainless for big batches (14.5 gallon Fermenator), the glass for funky brews, and the plastic better bottle for lagers that I have to lower into a chest freezer. For small, non-lager, non-funky, either plastic or glass.

-Eric

[TheDarkSide]

Do you guys that use better bottles scrub them at all or just soak em in hot PBW?

Just soak in PBW ( matter of fact mine still has it in there from last Saturday...looks pretty clean ). then I empty most of it out, and shake the rest of it around to help clean them out. Only once ( Dunkelweisen ) did I have to put a soft cloth in there to help it along.

My only concern with them is holding things for a long time, but I figure when I start doing lagers, I'll lager in a corny keg, right?

[Petedadink]

I think Ive just been sold on converting to better bottles.