[Bel Air Brewing]

The odor isn't a problem for future batches.  If it really bothers you, try baking soda.

Thank you. It does not bother me now that all of you "pros" have weighed in on the issue.

[Village Taphouse]

When you brew with that vessel again, give it a good whiff after it's been cleaned (soaked in hot water with a brewery cleanser or whatever) and sanitized using Starsan, IO-San or Iodophor.  You will notice that the odor of the previous batch is much less pronounced.  That's one good sign that your new batch won't be impacted by the previous one.  I switch off between two plastic fermenters now.  When I clean them after transferring from them and I put them back into my beer bunker, the smell is quite strong.  But after a good cleaning and sanitizing it's fine.

[denny]

The odor isn't a problem for future batches.  If it really bothers you, try baking soda.

Thank you. It does not bother me now that all of you "pros" have weighed in on the issue.

The other thing that can help is good old sunlight.  Which you probably have a lot more of in TX than we do OR right now!  Try leaving it open in the sun for a while.  It my help.

ETA:  now that I think about it, didn't it snow down there recently?

[Village Taphouse]

The odor isn't a problem for future batches.  If it really bothers you, try baking soda.

Thank you. It does not bother me now that all of you "pros" have weighed in on the issue.

The other thing that can help is good old sunlight.  Which you probably have a lot more of in TX than we do OR right now!  Try leaving it open in the sun for a while.  It my help.

ETA:  now that I think about it, didn't it snow down there recently?

My daughter is in Austin and told me it snowed on Sunday.   

[ynotbrusum]

Every summer I give my buckets a good deep cleaning and a full day or so of sun (repeating as needed).  They look bright white and then I start to use them again and the inevitable discoloration kicks in...but I don't ferment much in buckets anymore (other than SS Brew Buckets).  My buckets hold Iodophor, Star San, BLC mixture, you name it, from time to time...generally I just use them to capture the water from chilling to re-use for cleaning after the wort is racked to fermenter, or earlier in the brew day to weigh out grain bills and catch crushed grain in the underside of my JSP mill.  Sometimes I temporarily store extra grain in them, when I stock up in advance of some bigger brew days.  They really are handy and stepping up from using them as fermenters doesn't mean that they will not be used!

[Bel Air Brewing]

The odor isn't a problem for future batches.  If it really bothers you, try baking soda.

Thank you. It does not bother me now that all of you "pros" have weighed in on the issue.

The other thing that can help is good old sunlight.  Which you probably have a lot more of in TX than we do OR right now!  Try leaving it open in the sun for a while.  It my help.

ETA:  now that I think about it, didn't it snow down there recently?

My daughter is in Austin and told me it snowed on Sunday.   

We live 25 miles north of DFW Airport. A fair amount of moderate snow last Sunday, but it melted as soon as it hit the ground.