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darkstar79 · 01-03-2008, 02:03 AM

I bottled my beer last week ( i thought it tasted good uncarbonated out of the fermenting bucket) and I cleaned my bottles through the dishwasher and with extra cycles of high heat and sani rinse. I am worried since I saw that someone else wrote that they cleaned them with no soap. I DID use regular dishwasher soap- am I going to have a problem?

**Rick_R** · 01-03-2008, 07:53 PM

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Homebrewer_99 (re: pump washer/Star San):
Comments anyone??

Mine foams a fair amount, but it's just foam. As I've seen posted here before, "don't fear the foam."

Rick

homebrewer_99 · 01-03-2008, 08:38 PM

Don't get me wrong...I don't fear the foam...I think it's just messy to deal with and prefer to sanitize my bottles with Iodophor. This way I don't have to keep collecting the faom and tossing it back into the bucket...

fermenator · 01-03-2008, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by homebrewer_99

I've tried Starsan through this contraption and really prefer to use Iodophor instead because it doesn't foam all over the place after only 5 bottles...

Comments anyone??

How much of an iodophor/water mix do you use in the vinator? I just purchased one and i'm not sure how much to fill it and how much iodophor to use.

Thanks!

blacklab · 01-03-2008, 09:14 PM

1) use 22'ers
2) rinse after drinking-hot water in the sink. Sniff test to see if they are clean.
3) on bottle day, put in d/washer with hot dry on
4) bottle

I have never used santizer on my bottles before bottling and have never had an issue with this method.

That being said - I just bought three corny kegs. Bottling gets ooooold.

**Mutilated1** · 01-03-2008, 09:14 PM

Here's what I do and its pretty easy. After I pour myself a beer I rinse the yeast sediment out with warm water. Then if its a bottle that has a label, I set it aside till I have a sink full of label bottles to soak the labels off. If it doesn't have a label or I''ve soaked the label off then I put it in the diswasher and wash it along with the glasses and dishes. Then I put the clean bottle into a carboard six holder and put it away till bottling day.

Then on bottling day, I fill the diswasher up with bottles only and wash them all at once a second time and I use oxy-clean instead of dishwasher detergent. I give em a second rinse and then let em dry in the diswasher rack till I'm ready to put beer in 'em.

**Bulls Beers** · 01-03-2008, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by TheJadedDog

I clean my bottles as soon as they are empty and store them in a rubbermaid container to keep them as clean as possible. On bottling day all I do is pull them out of the rubbermaid and sanitize them.

+1..I stick them in one step solution for a minute or so, rinse and let dry on a bottle tree. Sometimes I put them in my dishwasher, when it's emply and set it on hot hot hot..That's easy.I started Kegging recently.That's much easier...

PseudoChef · 01-03-2008, 10:43 PM

My bottles don't even touch sanitizer. They get rinsed out after they're empty and on bottling day, I just put them in the dishwasher on the sanitize cycle.

**Rick_R** · 01-03-2008, 11:31 PM

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I think it's just messy to deal with and prefer to sanitize my bottles with Iodophor

Yeah, but then you can't slide-skate in the kitchen after sanitizing the bottles. Where's the fun in that?

Rick

AZ_Brew_Dude · 01-04-2008, 04:11 AM

For my first attempt at bottling, I rinsed existing bottles as I drank them - they were poured into a glass, never drank directly from them. On bottling day I put them all in the dishwasher and ran on the highest temperature cycle with the sanitize feature. I didn't even remove any of the labels, and a good amount of them fell off, but I didn't have any problems with them "cooking" on the heating element like someone else had mentioned. Once the cycle was done, I bottled directly and didn't use StarSan. The beer turned out fine.

Just a few comments:
1.) Many people have commented about the inconvenience of the foaming action of StarSan. Has anyone tried Saniclean? I think it's even made by the same company - the advantage is that there's no foam, disadvantage is that it requires a slightly longer contact time. I haven't tried it yet, but sounds interesting.

2.) The dishwasher method seems to work, but I'm wondering how well the insides of the bottle actually get washed. With the narrow openings, I doubt they get rinsed very well. I think we're mainly relying on the high temperature and sanitize function of the dishwasher. As long as they were rinsed pretty well before being put in the dishwasher I guess it's OK. Any comments?

3.) How many people have used the oven baking method described earlier? I might give that one a try for my next batch.