bottle caps

[rarcha]

This may sound like a dumb question, when bottling my beer do I need to clean or sanitize the caps and the capping tool.

Thankyou

 

[msa8967]

I always sanitize my caps by soaking in a bowl of starsan and periodically spray starsan on the cup of the capper.

 

[Calder]

Some people say no. They should be good straight out the pack.

I get a bowl of sanitizer and drop them in there until I need them.

Before I used no-rinse sanitizer, I used to put them in a pyrex jug and pour boiling water over them; leaving them in the water until needed.

No you don't have to sanitize the capper.

 

[Dark_Ale]

I soak mine in Vodka

 

[Whut]

I also drop them in a bowl of Starsan and pull them out as I need them.

 

[marsbike]

I throw them into the basin of my vineator on top of my bottle tree. Keeps my hands sanitized as well.

 

[jtrux]

I also use the cheep vodka method

 

[pksmitty]

Throw them in my vinator. Don't boil them, you can warp the lining making a seal difficult.

 

[lgilmore]

You should always do something to clean them before use. These are coming off an assembly line and the low cost of the caps tells me not a lot of money is spent on sanatation. I mean, I pick mine up out of a bulk bin and purchase by the pound. The bin is open all day, all sorts of people put their hands in there and I'm not even sure where my hands have been all day.

Run your caps through some sort of sanitizer.

 

[Hopper450]

I don't sanitize mine, plus they're oxygen caps so wouldn't be a good idea to do so. No problems so far. YMMV

 

[Calder]

I don't sanitize mine, plus they're oxygen caps so wouldn't be a good idea to do so. No problems so far. YMMV

I forgot about the O2 caps. You should not soak them in anything.