Dan-The-Man
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A friend and I recently started brewing (using Brew House kits for now) and we have been sanitizing and then sterilizing our bottles.
At first we were using sani-brew (what the brew shop gave us) but we have since switched to star san. Basically what I do now is use this rinser to squirt starsan into the bottles, put them on the tree and wait for them to dry. Next I put aluminum foil over the tops of the bottles and bake them in the oven at 350°F for 60 minutes, let them cool and store them in the six pack boxes that commercial beers come in.
When it comes time to use the bottles we simply pull the foil off the top and fill them.
My primary question is whether or not sterilizing the bottles in the oven is overkill. It would definitely be much easier to simply rinse the bottles with starsan just before bottling...
My secondary question is about starsan itself. Is it sufficient to give the bottles a squirt with my rinser, dip the top of the bottle in the sanitizer and then let them dry for a bit before filling the bottles?
Thanks for taking the time to help.
At first we were using sani-brew (what the brew shop gave us) but we have since switched to star san. Basically what I do now is use this rinser to squirt starsan into the bottles, put them on the tree and wait for them to dry. Next I put aluminum foil over the tops of the bottles and bake them in the oven at 350°F for 60 minutes, let them cool and store them in the six pack boxes that commercial beers come in.
When it comes time to use the bottles we simply pull the foil off the top and fill them.
My primary question is whether or not sterilizing the bottles in the oven is overkill. It would definitely be much easier to simply rinse the bottles with starsan just before bottling...
My secondary question is about starsan itself. Is it sufficient to give the bottles a squirt with my rinser, dip the top of the bottle in the sanitizer and then let them dry for a bit before filling the bottles?
Thanks for taking the time to help.