Beer Stains

Perhaps your holiday parties got (or will get) a bit raucous – that’s not a bad thing! However, with raucous parties come spills, and beer is a particularly gross kind of stain to deal with, as not only can it change the color of a carpet or rug, but as it sits and soaks, it’s smell can permeate the entire room, making it smell like a dive bar from the 1970s – certainly not something you want your living room to smell like. Here’s some expertly tested methods for removing beer stains from your carpet or rug.

• Soak as much of the beer up as possible with towels or paper towels. This is best done ASAP.
• Mix a tablespoon of white vinegar with a tablespoon of dishwashing detergent, and two cups of warm water.
• Apply this stain solution onto the stain, from the outside in, blotting the area of the carpet where the stain lays.
• Use cold water to remove any vinegar that might still sit on the carpet.

Method Two

• Soak liquid up with a towel
• Apply Woolite carpet cleaner spray foam onto the stain
• Dry with towel after solution sits on carpet for 15 minutes
• Vacuum rest of remaining foam off carpet.

Method Three

• Once carpet is completely dry and all liquid is soaked up, sprinkle a large amount of baking soda right on the stain. Make sure that the entire surface area of the stain is covered with baking soda.
• Allow baking soda to sit on top of beer stain for at least 24 hours – this will absorb all the smell that the beer may have imparted onto the carpet. After a period of 24 hours, vacuum up the remaining baking soda.