I am getting ready to bottle this weekend. I have the beer kit with the 2 large 6 gallon plastic buckets, one for the fermenter and one with a spigot on the bottom for bottling.
When I brewed up my beer 2 weeks ago I cleaned the bottling bucket with the c brite I was using for the rest of the equipment. Now that it is time to bottle I was thinking of rinsing my bottles with the bottle rinser (attached to faucet) then soak the racking cane, tubes, bottle caps and bottles in a solution of iodophor (12.5)in the bottling bucket. Once all the bottles have soaked for 2 minutes I would take them out, put them on the dishwasher rack and repeat until all bottles are clean. then all I would have to do is take out the caps, racking cane, and tubes then swish the iodophor solution around in the bucket for a minute then drain out the spigot.
I haven't read anyone using the bottling bucket to soak the equipment in, is there a downside to what I described above?
When I brewed up my beer 2 weeks ago I cleaned the bottling bucket with the c brite I was using for the rest of the equipment. Now that it is time to bottle I was thinking of rinsing my bottles with the bottle rinser (attached to faucet) then soak the racking cane, tubes, bottle caps and bottles in a solution of iodophor (12.5)in the bottling bucket. Once all the bottles have soaked for 2 minutes I would take them out, put them on the dishwasher rack and repeat until all bottles are clean. then all I would have to do is take out the caps, racking cane, and tubes then swish the iodophor solution around in the bucket for a minute then drain out the spigot.
I haven't read anyone using the bottling bucket to soak the equipment in, is there a downside to what I described above?