hkdakota

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Should you wait until the day your ready to bottle to sanitize the bottles?

DirtyDirty

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Yes.

MuchoGusto

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Yes... unless you want to increase the chance of contaminated bottles. Think about it this way. Would you go to a surgeon who says we need to operate. I can schedule you 2 days from today, but while you are here to save time let's go ahead and prep your belly with an iodine based cleaner. Do your best to keep it "uncontaminated" and I'll see you in 2 days. How does that sound???

wailingguitar

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You can sanitize them whenever you want, cover the mouths with cellophane. Once they're sanitized and there's no way for contaminants to get in, you're golden. You'll be fine.

FWIW; Commercial breweries don't sanitize bottle caps as a rule.. new glass either (SOME will have a no rinse sanitizer in a twist rinser, but that's about it). Wooden bungs, when they are used in Hoff Stevens and Golden Gate kegs aren't sanitized either.

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amd133mhz

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I have brand new bottles that the day before i intended on bottling I used cleaner and sanitizer on them,basically filled my bottling bucket up to 2 gallons and made up the mixture in that and just kept running it through the spigot into the bottles and dumping it back into the bucket. did that for each bottle, let them sit and air dry over night as thats how my sanitzer works(no rinse) then i sanitized again about a half hour before bottling the day of. Seems excessive I know,but cleaning them one day and sanitizing the next had kept my batch from getting infected