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Congratulations
on your purchase of a glass carboy.
Carboys are both easier to use and to sanitize than
plastic buckets. A well-treated carboy should last a lifetime.
Before
using your carboy for the first time, we recommend filling
the carboy with water, one gallon at a time, and marking-off
each one-gallon increment with permanent black marker.
Now you will always precisely know how much liquid
you have in the carboy.
For
accurate temperature measurement when using carboys, we
recommend using a plastic stick-on thermometer on each
carboy. The
thermometer's adhesive is waterproof and permanent.
Once it is in position, it will not come off.
For the most accurate temperature measurement, place
the thermometer at about the 2.5 gallon mark on the carboy.
If your carboy has ribs, stick the thermometer on the
un-ribbed "window" area.
Carboy
warnings:
1. Your carboy is not made from tempered glass.
Beware of exposing the carboy to temperature
extremes. Thus,
never fill or rinse the carboy with hot or boiling liquids.
This would cause the carboy to crack.
When rinsing, simply use room temperature water.
2.
Because your carboy is glass, never set it down
directly on concrete, such as a basement floor.
Concrete could scratch the carboy, and the scratches
could open into cracks. Instead, place the carboy onto a piece of cardboard or
newspaper.
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