tyrub42
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Hi,
I'm planning to do a brett saison over the winter (primary with t58, transfer to secondary and pitch a bunch of brett b. and age for 4-5 months). I have a plastic bucket that I was going to use, but I have a larger PET plastic fermenter with a screw top that seals better and can also hold an extra 10 liters of beer. I don't use that fermenter for fermenting anymore, but I do use it for bottle cleaning with PBW, and would like to be able to continue to do that if possible.
Wondering if it would be reasonable to think I could get it back to safety by giving it a bleach soak after the brett fermentation is done (could also do bleach and then iodine or whatever else), or if it would be good for brett only afterwards. It is a solid plastic fermenter with no spigot and smooth surfaces. It was used for about 20 batches of regular sac fermentation before I retired it and started using it for cleaning and delabeling bottles.
I don't use it often, but if I need bottles, it's very convenient to have because I can get about 36 12oz glass bottles in there to delabel.
Again, I'm not planning to do any active fermenting in it except for brett, but since I'm using it to clean bottles, I suppose there still is some risk. What do you think?
Thanks,
Tyler
I'm planning to do a brett saison over the winter (primary with t58, transfer to secondary and pitch a bunch of brett b. and age for 4-5 months). I have a plastic bucket that I was going to use, but I have a larger PET plastic fermenter with a screw top that seals better and can also hold an extra 10 liters of beer. I don't use that fermenter for fermenting anymore, but I do use it for bottle cleaning with PBW, and would like to be able to continue to do that if possible.
Wondering if it would be reasonable to think I could get it back to safety by giving it a bleach soak after the brett fermentation is done (could also do bleach and then iodine or whatever else), or if it would be good for brett only afterwards. It is a solid plastic fermenter with no spigot and smooth surfaces. It was used for about 20 batches of regular sac fermentation before I retired it and started using it for cleaning and delabeling bottles.
I don't use it often, but if I need bottles, it's very convenient to have because I can get about 36 12oz glass bottles in there to delabel.
Again, I'm not planning to do any active fermenting in it except for brett, but since I'm using it to clean bottles, I suppose there still is some risk. What do you think?
Thanks,
Tyler