Bottle Cap Trivia

Hi all,

Well, I'm one of those people that when it comes to bottling day, I don't want a bunch of left over wet from Star-san bottle caps that I have to wait for them to dry before I put them away. SWMBO isn't thrilled about the whole brewing thing anyway so, I try to clean everything up as soon as I'm finished.

Here it is! 24 bottle caps weigh 50 gm. on my scale. If I figure a 5 gal. batch will use at least 48=100 gm., I dump them in the Star-san and keep some bulk for the extras.

Yeah, I've got issues.

Greydog

Good idea and good way to save time.

How long does it take to count out 48 caps?

Sorry.
I thought maybe having 24 caps in a baggie ready for bottling day before the actual day would be helpful.
I guess I was wrong.
As an aside, I thought my post might give someone an idea to use their equipment for something other than its original intent.
That's just me.

I appreciate the "thinking outside the box" approach.

I should have clarified my statement. It's faster for me to count caps that it would be to weigh them on my POS scale.

Well, that's fine until you screw up a cap and need to break out and sanitize a new one...

I don't use 12 oz bottles so I usually get 37 1/2 liter bottles from a batch. I just count out 40 and sanitize them. The unused are dried and put away.