Clean Bottles

[ncbrewer]

Brew Your Own: The How-To Homebrew Beer Magazine - Story Index - Brewing Tips - 24 Brewing Tips and Rules of Thumb (archive.org)

So you recognized a three-sentence quote from a 1998 BYO article - and new where to find the current link to it. You obviously spend way too much time reading about brewing. Good to know I'm not the only one.

 

[z-bob]

So you recognized a three-sentence quote from a 1998 BYO article - and new where to find the current link to it. You obviously spend way too much time reading about brewing. Good to know I'm not the only one.

No, I just knew how I might could find the article using your link and the wayback machine

 

[RufusBrewer]

I had a bottle bomb once. Now I am a suspenders and belt bottler.

After I open a bottle of beer, it gets 1/4 - 1/3 filled with tap water. Hand over the top and shake a few times. Empty the bottle. Repeat the fill and shake step. Set bottle aside.

Bottles get a soak in PBW (NOT Oxyclean) and a good rinse with the brass water jet mentioned before.

I love my bottle pump and bottle tree. Each bottle gets pumped with Starsan and hangs on the tree until it gets filled and capped.

 

[SFC Rudy]

I used to clean my bottles, then got lazy and did the "rinse after pour, dry then sanitize before filling" and had no problems. Recently I had a dirty bottle and used a bottle brush hooked up to my drill to clean it. Just for shits and giggles I decided to do the same to the "clean" bottles I was getting ready to use. I was amazed at how quick my cleaning solution got dirty from my "clean" bottles. So, now I'm back to cleaning my bottles before use.

 

[MrBJones]

I had a bottle bomb once. Now I am a suspenders and belt bottler.

After I open a bottle of beer, it gets 1/4 - 1/3 filled with tap water. Hand over the top and shake a few times. Empty the bottle. Repeat the fill and shake step. Set bottle aside.

Bottles get a soak in PBW (NOT Oxyclean) and a good rinse with the brass water jet mentioned before.

I love my bottle pump and bottle tree. Each bottle gets pumped with Starsan and hangs on the tree until it gets filled and capped.

Why not Oxiclean?

 

[RufusBrewer]

Why not Oxiclean?

In the past, I have had problems with Oxyclean not rinsing clean. I am a right tool for the job kind of guy. PBW never failed me. I use it and do not worry.

Certainly others use Oxyclean and report, "I have never had a problem." There is a recipe for making a DIY PBW, which is lower cost.

Speaking for myself, I do not use enough PBW to bother with the time and energy to whip up a batch of DIY PBW.

Your situation could be different.

 

[KyBeer]

What is the DIY PBW recipe?