Do you have to boil the bottel caps?

[maida7]

Can you sanitize them with san star? Or is the boiling a must do?

 

[Revvy]

Very few folks these days boil their caps, the plastic gasket inside of modern caps would be ruined.

I soak mine in my favorite sanitizer. WHat I usually do is drop 54 caps into my vinator bowl since it is full of sanitizer on bottling day.

 

[maida7]

awesome man! I'd filling off the keg with a counter pressure filler and it will be so much easier to just soak them in san star for a few minutes.

Thanks for the prompt reply.

 

[TheCrackpot]

Very few folks these days boil their caps, the plastic gasket inside of modern caps would be ruined.

I wonder if this explains some carbonation inconsistencies I've noticed in the past?

I'll never boil again!

I wish I had read this earlier.

 

[SudsyPaul]

Dang!!! You just saved me a huge headache/screw-up!

 

[cluckk]

I use the oxygen absorbing caps, giving me one more reason not to boil. I simply soak them in star san or Iodophor. They do need to be sanitized, but boiling is not needed.