Check out this https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/bottling-tips-homebrewer-94812/
It has some great bottling tips. I bottle over the dishwasher like in post #2. I just use a turkey baster to squirt star san in the bottle and then put them in the dishwasher. I do 12 at a time, cap and then move on to the next 12. The best thing about this method is to clean up the drips all you have to do is close the dishwasher door. Brilliant.
Not to take this off course, I think my thoughts are related. I have yet to bottle anything so far, but have concern over beer being exposed to light when bottling. I like the idea bottling right over the dishwasher door. But if your kitchen is like mine, it gets lots of sunlight during the day. So I thought of doing it after the sun has gone down. (I suppose this problem exists anywhere there is sunlight.)
But.. we have CFLs everywhere. Anyone worry about exposure to them for time it takes to bottle? I was thinking of shutting all the lights off and pulling out two work lights to bottle under that have old school 100 watt incandescent bulbs. Would someone need to be worried about this? Or just bottle away, short term CFL isn't a problem?
You know, bottling beer is not like developing pictures, you really don't need a dark room.
diS,
What was the plastic part of your rack in it's former life? I like how compact your setup is and would like to copy it..
billf2112 said:drathbone,
Revvy put out a post a long time ago about bottling over the open dishwasher door. You set the bottling bucket on top of the dishwasher, cut your bottling wand tube short, so it dangles above the open door and bottle there. I have a bad back and bad knees, this allows me to bottle in a chair. Once your done close the door and the drippings go inside. Of course remove clean dishes first.
diS,
What was the plastic part of your rack in it's former life? I like how compact your setup is and would like to copy it..
me too .. do tell???
START KEGGING!!! its fantastic youll never turn back.
*GROAN* Can we EVER have a BOTTLING question where someone doesn't answer it by mentioning kegging????? You know, some of us may never keg, or will keg and bottle. It's not the be all and end all of brewing...And doesn't need to be brought up every time someone mentions bottling. I mean, we're not idiots...we've HEARD about kegging actually (it's hard not to considering this IS the bottling/kegging section afterall.
It's as tiring and trite a comment to see in every bottling thread as "You're beer is ruined so send it to me for proper disposal."
It's as old as this guy
cadarnell said:if those posts are so tiring to you .. why dont you just skip past them? ... I mean if we were all actually together and just shooting the **** about brewing and bottling .. those kinds of comments would come up .. old jokes and nudges in the direction of kegging .. it happens when homebrewers get together in person .. so it's only logical for it to happen here IMO ... also this is all about beer .. so it's also logical that many of us are fairly drunk when we post from time to time ... and this is in the beginners section not the bottling and kegging section ...
Why don't you just skip over his post? Ill give kegging a try if you let me borrow all your stuff. I'll be needing the kegerator as well bottling is cheap and there actually are other advantages.
cadarnell said:I don't keg either .. no money for the stuff, but I also really kinda like bottling too .. I commented on the post mostly because I just told the "I'll dispose of your ruined beer" joke recently ... and I thought it was pretty funny .. of course I was a little drunk tho ... sorry if I offended anyone .. I'm just mouthy sometimes I guess ...
Back to the original topic. I got some good ideas from everyone and heres what I came up with. Supplies needed, none.
Its the top of my dishwasher rack. I will spray this with starsan and grab bottles out of the starsan and stick onto this. The bottles fit nicely
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