Glass carboy sanitize

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Cposten

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So I had a bacterial infection that was in my ferm buckets. I got rid of them and bought a new one but I did rack infected beer into my glass carboy when I didn't know I had the infection. I cleaned it with bleach and sanstar but I don't know if its good now or if I should abandon that too. It's about racking time for my current batch and those are the only 2 5gal fermenters I have right now.
 
Bleach followed by Star San should do the trick. I'd replace your plastics, but the glass will clean up.
 
Your carboy should be fine. Plastics holds infections, but glass is pretty resistant to them unless you have scratched the inside of it up while cleaning.
 
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