philjohnwilliams

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As others here have suggested, the best way to clean your bottles is to not let them get dirty to begin with. Rinse them out after use so that at bottling time they will only need to be sanitized. On bottling day, my clean bottles just need a quick sanitizing and they are good to go. I can bottle a 5 gal batch start to finish in about an hour. One trick I learned is to store your empty bottles upside down in the case. It makes it easy to see how many empties you have and (most importantly) keeps the spiders out.

steve09

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My Oxiclean jar says to never let oxiclean dry on anything, perhaps that is what caused the "film dust"? I always make sure to soak the bottles in a Rubbermaid container that allows my to submerge them so it can't dry on the glass. I do ~48 at a time.

Also you should rinse with cold water, it's cheaper and faster (no foam). The label says that too

spenghali

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Rinse and store upside down. On bottling day I usually submerge them in starsan and then hang them on the bottling tree. If i am cleaning commercial bottles I soak them in straight-A and the labels fall right off after a few hours.

goingmad

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I usually use this to fast wash the bottles with the sanitizing solution



and then leave the bottles upside down on this, plastic tool, good for 80 bottles



I'm much faster from the time I've bought those tools. Hope this helps


cheers


gm

geniz

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I soak bottles in oxyclean, remove labels (if needed) rinse well, dry on bottle tree and then cover top with piece of foil and put into boxes. When I need to bottle they are clean and just need a couple of spurts of starsan. Good to go

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solbes

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Just rinse them out with hot water really well before you go to bed. The next morning tip them over again to make sure all the water is out. Store them in the 12 packs.

On bottling day I use one of those vinators (or sulphiter) and bottle tree as shown above. Very easy and effective.

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Secondary #1: Russian Imperial Stout#2: Empty
Kegged: Irish Red, Sunset Wheat clone
Bottles: Piker Liker Porter, Dubbel, Carmelite Tripel, Belgian Tripel, Apfelwine (Windsor)
On Deck: Dusseldorf Alt, Queen of Hearts SMaSH, Honkers Ale wanna-be, Stella clone, Oktoberfest

Henry22

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Soak them in oxyclean to remove lab els, them rinse them out. Cover the top with foil and bake them at 270-280 for a good hour. Then they stay sanitized until you remove the foil.

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Primary #2: Yooper's Rogue Dead Guy Clone
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Future Brew: Dunkelweizen, ???
Drinking: My beers, Stella, Green Flash, Kentucky light and Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale