Well I just got some caps and I was curious if I should throw them into the bath of Onestep before I go to cap my bottles? I am cleaning everything else, so why not? Any thoughts for a 1st timer bottling?
You spent all the money and time to make your beer, why would you risk it by not sanitizing your caps? Give those babies a dunk in some sanitizer.
There are folks that don't sanitize but I don't know why. A cup full of sanitizer to hold the caps while bottling doesn't seem like very much work to me.
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I just lay mine out on the dishwasher door where my child slave labor brewing assistant is filling bottles and spray them down with starsan. I lay about 10 at a time out, spray them all down, shake them out as I pick each one up to put it on the bottle and cap it. No gushers for me yet (knocks on wood).
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Make sure however to only sanitize the amount that you need, or dry the others well. I sanitized all of the caps that came with my beginner kit but only used about half, the others went into a baggie. When I went to bottle my second batch they were all rusty.
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Coming from a small island off the coast of Europe, I'm just well impressed you donned a cowboy hat to deal with the trouble! In my head it is all a bit Apocalypse Now. Charlie don't brew.
"sanitize Everything That Is Going To Touch Your Beer"!!!!!!!!!!!
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