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Old 11-30-2011, 02:55 AM   #11
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Maybe there's an easier way to do this, but for a couple of batches I had problems with micro infections in some of my beer bottles (evidenced by the telltale ring around the neck), and this problem seems to have gone away after thoroughly using a bottle brush for the last couple of batches. The jet bottle washer doesn't seem to blast the neck of bottle well enough and I guess the oxyclean soak didn't get it either.


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If you bottle using reused commercial beer always rinse them after drinking shake the **** out of them with hot water, save until you want to peel labels soak in hot water about an hour peel then use a bottle brush to clean, i use baking soda, i pre rinse so i never have probelms with infections in bottle as long as i clean before storing. Key is to just rinse well after drinking so the residue does not harden or stick around . Toss out your moldy bottles.Just prerinse immedialtly in the future you will have tons of good bottles.Easiest way to do this,rinse them good after drinking. Drink out of a glass,and rinse your bottles well- no mouth bacteria that way also.
Hot water shake dump vigorously 4-5 times,then later do a bottle brush scrub/rinse dry store- then sanitize before use.
I always have a shallow dish of water that i dip the necks of the bottles in right before bottleing then shake them then fill.After i already just sanitized them.
Basically i pour the sanitizer in them then drip dry in my dish rack them till i bottle all within a 2 hr period when im bottleing.After they drip dry i just dip the necks and shake then bottle.
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Isn't that the truth, cost of new empties is way too high compared to full bottles. Besides emptying them is a lot of fun.
Yep.. stopped at Costco tonight and picked up a 24 pack of SN Celebration and a 24 pack of Kirkland ales... that'll keep the pipeline time to catch up.. :O
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I've got a brush that I never use. If you're diligent about rinsing you'll never have to. Any bottle I forget about just goes to the recycling bin. I've always got plenty of rinsed bottles laying about from my "market research". lol


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