Home brew? Homebrew? Winemaking

Cheers! I just use hot soapy water then a sterilising solution like Richies. If its something very mucky try a long bottle brush, or something like ball bearings or ceramic balls (they're sold as 'baking beads' for weighing down blind-baked pie shells etc) that you can put in with the water and swill around.

What's your plastic beef, or is it just aesthetic? All my fermentation vessels are plastic because its the only affordable stuff in 5 gallon sizes...
Its pretty bad, the guy I got it from didn't clean it out very brilliantly, I lke the bearings idea, its a big bugger though and very heavy and made of the smashy stuff, I will have to take care. The anti plastic....well I have a sneaking feeling that my food grade plastic fermenting bins [which I have used over the years] are imparting a subtle 'hint of plastic' to my brews, It may be in my mind of course, but I want to give it a go [also it gives me an 11 gallon fermenter FTW]