Bottling/Sanitation Question

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sweet_corn

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I thought my first brew would be ready for bottling, but I need to wait as it is still fermenting in the secondary. Anyhow, I sanitized all of my bottles tonight with a no-rinse sanitizer. How long can I keep them before then need re sanitizing, or do I need to do that again no matter when I brew?

Thanks for your help?
 
if you let them COMPLETLEY dry out carefully, preferably with a sterile gloved hand, and a surgeons mask place some clean tin-foil over the mouth of each one, they will stay sanitized for months/years that way...

the key is to make sure they have no water in them, without water pretty much nothing can grow. Microbes are not in the habit of creeping,crawling, floating, flying, or hicthing rides on dust, photons, or mosquito eyelashes into empty sanitized water-free bottles and setting up shop.
 
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