Recently I came upon a most unfortunate site in my garage - somehow a mouse (no idea how) actually managed to crawl it's way into one of my empty 5 gallon glass carboys. It must have been in there for a few days at least and ultimately expired due to hunger, thirst or the impact of hitting the glass bottom.
In any case, I fished the poor guy out and filled the carboy with a good dose of starsan and water. I will probably repeat the sanitation process and then clean it with some one step cleaner, and then may even sanitize it once more for good measure.
My first impulse was to just chuck the fermenter as it disgusted me thinking that my future beers would be soaking in a fermenter turned mouse trap. But my wife told me to just shrug it off, sanitize/clean it and move on. I reluctantly agreed.
If a mouse or [insert furry critter of your choice] died in your empty brewing vat of choice, what would you do? :smack:
In any case, I fished the poor guy out and filled the carboy with a good dose of starsan and water. I will probably repeat the sanitation process and then clean it with some one step cleaner, and then may even sanitize it once more for good measure.
My first impulse was to just chuck the fermenter as it disgusted me thinking that my future beers would be soaking in a fermenter turned mouse trap. But my wife told me to just shrug it off, sanitize/clean it and move on. I reluctantly agreed.
If a mouse or [insert furry critter of your choice] died in your empty brewing vat of choice, what would you do? :smack: