So I find that when my friends give their empty bottles to me they tend to have moldy beer left in the bottom or just mold kind of slimed from the sides. Recently I had to dip into this stash of moldy bottles to try and bottle a beer and I think I have a few not-so-good ones in there. So I'm looking for a sure fire way to clean these bottles out.
Basically what I did was take the offenders and soak them in Oxyclean for about an hour then scrub them out with a bottle brush. Next soaked in Star San for 30 minutes then hung on a bottling tree. After drying they were packed into their cardboard boxes and stashed in my fully finished basement for a few weeks.
Even after all of that there is still some attached film in the bottoms of some of these but I really just underestimated how many bottles I needed and used some of these anyway (after sanitation of course).
My question is if there is a sure way to clean these out for good. Should I soak them in bleach for a week? Run them through my dishwasher twice? There has got to be some way to guarentee the cleanliness of these bottles once again. Any help is appreciated.
Basically what I did was take the offenders and soak them in Oxyclean for about an hour then scrub them out with a bottle brush. Next soaked in Star San for 30 minutes then hung on a bottling tree. After drying they were packed into their cardboard boxes and stashed in my fully finished basement for a few weeks.
Even after all of that there is still some attached film in the bottoms of some of these but I really just underestimated how many bottles I needed and used some of these anyway (after sanitation of course).
My question is if there is a sure way to clean these out for good. Should I soak them in bleach for a week? Run them through my dishwasher twice? There has got to be some way to guarentee the cleanliness of these bottles once again. Any help is appreciated.