Cleaning FV after acetobactor

[GrowlingDogBeer]

Hi

Racking my latest beer tonight into cornies and noticed one of the fermenters was well infected. cloudy nasty looking stuff on top and it tasted of vinegar. I'm assuming it was an acetobactor infection, the other one was fine.

So I racked off one corny only and put the other half the batch down the drain.

2 questions

1. The fermenter is a blue Mango Chutney Barrel, I don't see any scratches or damage in it so is a good clean with Oxy clean, then a good soak in bleach good enough to clean it, or do I need more drastic measures. Should I even just chuck it.

2. I now have 1 corny that I have rinsed out with Starsan, and currently is empty apart from the remnants of the Starsan and CO2, is it safe to leave it like this until I next want to use it or should I rinse it out and re sanitise next time.

Thanks

[smeggedup]

i've never used this stuff but hear alot of bad stuff regarding it ruining other beers, if i was you i'd throw everything you've got at it, give it a day between different methods, and stand it open to the air, then leave it to so you can confirm no presence of the stuff.

With the cornny, i've started doing this quite a bit, sanitising and pressurising cornny's to store, but i always re- sanitising when needed just to be on the safe side.

[Aleman]

Boiling water Acetobacter is relatively heat labile

[GrowlingDogBeer]

Cheers, perhaps I'll fire up the steamer and give it a good blast if heat will do the trick.

[Befuddler]