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[SchwanzBrewer]

I've just been putting my beer glasses in the dishwasher all these years and they get soap scum and shit on them and they look terrible.

 

Well I'm getting a display cabinet for all my steins and my glasses so I can finally get them out of the kitchen cabinets. TPW has broken so many of them moving them around that I've had enough. On top of that I bought a bunch of crystal tuplip whisky glasses (glencairn) for tasting beer and drinking whisky and I wasn't about to put them in the dish washer. So on a whim I bought one of these...

 

 

and a 1 gallon Cambro Food Bin so I don't have to fill the sink. I didn't know what to use to clean the glasses so I just decided to use PBW.

 

Holy crap, this thing works like a charm. The glasses are cleaner than ever, spotless, and the beer doesn't decarbonate on grease spots on the side anymore after air drying. My glasses are perfect now. Once I get the cabinet I won't have to worry about dust or TPW breaking them. I wish I'd done this a long time ago.

The only thing I need is to get a smaller diameter brush for the glencairn glasses. They don't fit on the one in the picture.

[HVB]

Did you get that from Amazon? I think I may pick one up.

Edited by drez77, 18 November 2017 - 04:20 PM.

[Bklmt2000]

I've just been putting my beer glasses in the dishwasher all these years and they get soap scum and shit on them and they look terrible.

 

Well I'm getting a display cabinet for all my steins and my glasses so I can finally get them out of the kitchen cabinets. TPW has broken so many of them moving them around that I've had enough. On top of that I bought a bunch of crystal tuplip whisky glasses (glencairn) for tasting beer and drinking whisky and I wasn't about to put them in the dish washer. So on a whim I bought one of these...

 

 

and a 1 gallon Cambro Food Bin so I don't have to fill the sink. I didn't know what to use to clean the glasses so I just decided to use PBW.

 

Holy crap, this thing works like a charm. The glasses are cleaner than ever, spotless, and the beer doesn't decarbonate on grease spots on the side anymore after air drying. My glasses are perfect now. Once I get the cabinet I won't have to worry about dust or TPW breaking them. I wish I'd done this a long time ago.

The only thing I need is to get a smaller diameter brush for the glencairn glasses. They don't fit on the one in the picture.

 

I use a similar washer from Polder, and also use a tub dedicated for beer glassware.

 

Works great.  Pic of washer:

 

[Big Nake]

I think the trick on all of this is hot soapy water, a hot rinse and air-dry. I typically take a sponge with hot soapy water, clean the glass inside and out, rinse with hot water and then upside down (on a paper towel or something) to air dry. Seems to work.

[SchwanzBrewer]

Yeah I got it on amazon

[pkrone]

Our water here is so alkaline that the dry cycle on the dishwasher will etch all glassware eventually.   Figured that out after living here a couple of years.   All hand wash only for the finer glassware. 

[Bklmt2000]

Our water here is so alkaline that the dry cycle on the dishwasher will etch all glassware eventually.   Figured that out after living here a couple of years.   All hand wash only for the finer glassware. 

 

Agreed 100%; none of my beer glasses have ever seen the inside of my dishwasher.

[Big Nake]

Our water here is so alkaline that the dry cycle on the dishwasher will etch all glassware eventually.   Figured that out after living here a couple of years.   All hand wash only for the finer glassware.

I wash all mine by hand too. Not sure if my water would eventually ruin them and the occasional glass does end up in the dishwasher but not if I can help it.

[SchwanzBrewer]

Agreed 100%; none of my beer glasses have ever seen the inside of my dishwasher.

Well aren't you guys spiffy! I guess im late to the party that i wasnt even invited to!

*stomps off in a huff*

Edited by SchwanzBrewer, 19 November 2017 - 09:06 AM.