I just bottled my new IPA and about half way through I smelled one of my 22's. It smelled funny. I don't know really how to describe it. Here's what I did to sanitize. After starting with used clean bottles, I rinsed them again with really hot water and scrubed them with a brush. Then I sealed them with tin foil, put them in the oven for an hour after the temp reached 350 degrees. I did 18 yesterday and 12 today the same way before I bottled. I am wondering if my IPA may be ruined due to poor sanitation?
Funny Smell after Baking Bottles
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magno
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I doubt that you ruined the batch, but next time I would sanitize with iodophor or even <gasp> bleach.
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...or Star San.magno said:
In any case, 350 is much hotter than you really need for sanitizing bottles. 200 would be plenty warm, and you wouldn't have nearly the risk of cracking a bottle from thermal shock when you open the oven.
cyberjoey80
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Did it smell like cat pee? I know this sounds stupid but did it have a sour, kind or hot pee smell to it? I have noticed from making fish sticks (which I do several times a week) that sometimes foil left in the oven has a kind of pungent odor to it...kind of like playing in a litterbox and looking for some "rocks." I just switched to keg but I would just fill a five gallon bucket (not a fermenter to avoid scratching) with an idophor/ water solution, submerge about 7 on the bottom and one laying across the top (22oz). Then take those 8 out and do 8 more. While the next 8 are in, I quickly give a rinse down just to make sure all the idophor is out....then I bought a keg and never looked back. I dont see the reason for the oven if you ask me...and you probably should'nt. Hope it helps.
Evan!
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I'll chime in---
use star san. much easier. no-rinse.
use star san. much easier. no-rinse.
RoaringBrewer
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I sanitize with the Star also. Very easy, no rinse sanitizer, and no need to bake the bottles (I've never actually heard of that before!)...
I have heard of it, I think Glibiddy does it when he's not kegging. It's a perfectly legit way of sanitizing, but you don't want them to get up to 350 degrees.
With that said, Star-San and Iodophor are cheap and easy, and since I need to make a batch of sanitizer on bottling day anyway....
With that said, Star-San and Iodophor are cheap and easy, and since I need to make a batch of sanitizer on bottling day anyway....
Baking in an oven is an acceptable way to sanitize per Palmer
http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter2-2-3.html
It seems to me to be a little ackward and old school:fro: , but it is a rainy-day solution if you were strapped for funds or were snowed in.
http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter2-2-3.html
It seems to me to be a little ackward and old school:fro: , but it is a rainy-day solution if you were strapped for funds or were snowed in.
Interesting - that's sterilized, not sanitized, for any of our more anal-retentive members.
ColoradoXJ13
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I baked all my bottles at 350 for 1.5 hours, seemed to work fine, no weird smell. I didn't put tin foil on until after, but I baked the foil with the bottles to sterilize it too.
edit: I have never made fish sticks...
edit: I have never made fish sticks...
Hopfan
Nice Beaver....
If it smells like fish...
dcbrewmeister
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Don't get them wet while they're hot...
Yeah that's "sterilizing" not "sanitizing" but should work just the same.
I do the bucket of water with sanitizer thingy, never had a problem. Consider a bottle tree, bacteria doesn't go up... neither does dust when your bottles sit between batches.
Yeah that's "sterilizing" not "sanitizing" but should work just the same.
I do the bucket of water with sanitizer thingy, never had a problem. Consider a bottle tree, bacteria doesn't go up... neither does dust when your bottles sit between batches.
I use a sanitizer solution and drip dry on the dish washer rack. I can fit an entire batch in my dishwasher.
I am considering using the sanitize setting on my dishwasher but that setting is a power hog and it is questionable whether enough water enters the bottle to make sanitizing effective.
Craig
I am considering using the sanitize setting on my dishwasher but that setting is a power hog and it is questionable whether enough water enters the bottle to make sanitizing effective.
Craig
Brewtopia
"Greenwood Aged Beer"
FYI, Iodopher is a no rinse sanitizer as well.
butler1850
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CBBaron said:
It's not the water entering the bottles, but the heat & humidty of the environment.
I use the power, it's much easier than the other methods. Clean bottles into the dishwasher, push the buttons, and hit start. Come back when done and bottle directly from the dishwasher.
8 or 9 batches so far with no problems with contaminated bottles.
I'm probably the only one who uses bleach. But it does take a long time to first clean the bottles with Oxyclean, rinse, soak in bleach, rinse. I've done 12 batches now, and never had a problem.
I'm going to look into the sanitize feature of a dishwasher. Interesting.
I'm going to look into the sanitize feature of a dishwasher. Interesting.
