Bottle safety help

[MarkBowie]

I amassed a good collection of bottles with every intention of using them regularly. However, I haven’t since used them and they have been outside since the summer of 2018. They inbetween an unheated garage wall and a shed with a garden fence at the back. Will the elements have made them unsafe for the job now?

 

[user 18729]

I amassed a good collection of bottles with every intention of using them regularly. However, I haven’t since used them and they have been outside since the summer of 2018. They inbetween an unheated garage wall and a shed with a garden fence at the back. Will the elements have made them unsafe for the job now?

The glass should be fine, it’s just what’s lurking inside them if they clean up alright should be fine

 

[Clint]

You need bleach...

 

[MarkBowie]

Thanks guys. If they’re still viable for use I will give them a thorough clean

 

[Clint]

I've recently cleaned a cruddy load of bottles... they needed a good bleach type cleaner to shift the crap,a thrashing with a bottle brush,some I put through the dishwasher. I done them in batches of around 12 as it's a tedious job.

 

[MarkBowie]

I've recently cleaned a cruddy load of bottles... they needed a good bleach type cleaner to shift the crap,a thrashing with a bottle brush,some I put through the dishwasher. I done them in batches of around 12 as it's a tedious job.

Thanks, I think these are going to probably need all the above...... which bleach cleaner did you use?

 

[Clint]

I got a powdered one...I think it's Young's. Cheapest supermarket bleach will be fine or get the unperfumed oxy type cleaner that's quite good.

 

[user 18729]

I’ve got half a dozen soaking at the minute. The father in law failed to rinse them out before returning them bloody grafted with yeasty mouldy gunk. Bleach is the only chance of shifting it using Antiformin S, which is unpurfumed bleach

 

[DavidDetroit]

+1 on the OxyClean-type. stuff. Soaking a lot at once, for a day, is very effective.

 

[grooves]

I use “magic balls” - sold for cleaning decanters - to get rid of crud at the bottom of bottles. They work great.

 

[MarkBowie]

I use “magic balls” - sold for cleaning decanters - to get rid of crud at the bottom of bottles. They work great.

That’s going to be an interesting google search

 

[GerritT]

Wasn't there a preference for thin bleach, because thick bleach sticks? Read it somewhere here I think.

 

[MarkBowie]

Wasn't there a preference for thin bleach, because thick bleach sticks? Read it somewhere here I think.

I remember reading that somewhere too, was going to get the cheapest thin stuff I could see at supermarket

 

[Hagrid]

Wasn't there a preference for thin bleach, because thick bleach sticks? Read it somewhere here I think.

I think it might be this one you’re thinking of.

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/domestos-ultra-white-and-sparkle-bleach.88825/

 

[Baz Chaz]

Likewise had some cruddy bottles, left them in a weak solution of cheapy bleach/distilled vinegar overnight, gave them a good shake and the crud that came out! Repeated for a second night with fresh mix, by morning, sparkly clean.

I mixed 1 teaspoon per gallon of cold water (not hot) and stirred, then added same amount of distilled vinegar, stirred again, excellent result.

Which is the same rate I actually use with bottles prior to bottling.