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Soaked bottles too long in Oxiclean.. residue solution?

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:29 pm
by TimG
So soaked a batch of bottles in Oxiclean (mainly to remove labels), but left them in too long and they have a chalky residue (more like dried bits of powder when the bottles dry) on the outside and inside. Outside I can scrub off easily enough, but what about the inside? Maybe I can soak them in 'something else' which will dissolve the residue? I tried soaking in clean hot water but didn't really do much of anything.

Anybody else ever run into this?

Tim

Re: Soaked bottles too long in Oxiclean.. residue solution?

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:01 pm
by RubberToe
Try some stars and then rinse them. It's a good acid, should dissolve it.

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Re: Soaked bottles too long in Oxiclean.. residue solution?

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:04 pm
by RubberToe
Fucking autocorrect. Starsan

Sent from the brew timer.

Re: Soaked bottles too long in Oxiclean.. residue solution?

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:13 pm
by Keith
TimG wrote:So soaked a batch of bottles in Oxiclean (mainly to remove labels), but left them in too long and they have a chalky residue (more like dried bits of powder when the bottles dry) on the outside and inside. Outside I can scrub off easily enough, but what about the inside? Maybe I can soak them in 'something else' which will dissolve the residue? I tried soaking in clean hot water but didn't really do much of anything.

Anybody else ever run into this?

Tim
Did you try one of those jet washers?

Re: Soaked bottles too long in Oxiclean.. residue solution?

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:22 pm
by farmerwib
In How to Brew, John Palmer recommends CLR when you end up with a chalky haze caused by soaking in percarbonates too long.

Re: Soaked bottles too long in Oxiclean.. residue solution?

Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 1:00 am
by TimG
Awesome, sounds like CLR might be the ticket! I'll give that a go, sounds easy. Thanks!