I'm about to bottle in brand new 500ml german wheat beer bottles. They're fresh out of the box and sparkling clean. Do you just sanitize, or give them a rinse too? It's not like they're my bottles that I keep recycling over and over, so I figured I'd ask.
Do you clean brand new bottles?
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If the box was closed and all, I usually just sanitize. If they've been out in the open, then I'll oxyclean and sanitize. I picked up the last 3/4's of a box and I'll be oxying them since I don't know how long they've been out, or who've touched them, or what's crawled or flow in before.
I just gave them a quick rinse with my Jetwash and then sanitized. They really were spotless and probably didn't need anything, but just better off to give them a quick cleaning. I hate bottling so much. Can't wait until the day I move to a house from my NYC apartment so I can keg. My fiance won't allow one more fridge in the apartment....one wine fridge and one fermentation chamber is all I'm allowed to have!
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Combine the fermentation chamber and the wine fridge, and use the other one for kegs
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