Bottles smell after sterilizing in oven

[NWMashMakers]

As we started bottling we noticed a funny odor in the kitchen. Turns out it came from the unfoiled bottles. The beer was pushing the air from out of the bottles and there was this weird star san like plastic odor coming from out of the bottles when filling.

We know we have good beer going into the bottles. My question is if we ruined it somehow with our bottle sterilization process.

We decided to sterilize our recycled bottles in the oven. We washed in star san, tilted upside down to drain and then put foil capped bottles in oven for steri process.

 

[normonster]

Notes of medicine and plastic....ahhhh....perfect breakfast beer.

Just kidding. If you're going to bake em there's no need for a presoak in SS. Sounds like you burned some of it. Next time I'd say water then bake or just star san but not both.

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

Haven't baked star san so can't really comment with if that's where it came from. But I do agree with the previous post about using one or the other method. I would either clean,rinse,bake or use starsan

Again not sure if baked star san is the cause of your plastic or not but it would almost either have to be star San, not thoroughly rinsed off cleaner, or not cleaned at all, residue getting baked in the bottle . As long as you're sure it's not the beer it has to be residue of something in the bottle.

 

[Psylocide]

Was all the glue from the previous labels completely gone? Or were these new empties that you purchased? Agree with not baking if you use starsan. No reason to... I just spray the inside with solution and call it good.

 

[barnaclebob]

No need to bake the bottles, just a waste of time.

 

[ChelisHubby]

What temp do you bake bottles ?

 

[The_Bishop]

350 until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

 

[NWMashMakers]

Thanks for the replies. I won't use starsan prior to baking again. The smell stayed with me for several hours. Probably will just use starsan and then dry.

For those curious, we started at 200 degrees for 10 minutes, then up to 285 for 10 minutes, then 350 for 60 minutes. Cooled overnight.

 

[flars]

Thanks for the replies. I won't use starsan prior to baking again. The smell stayed with me for several hours. Probably will just use starsan and then dry.

For those curious, we started at 200 degrees for 10 minutes, then up to 285 for 10 minutes, then 350 for 60 minutes. Cooled overnight.

A bottle handling regime that many brewers use:
Triple cold rinse after pouring the beer
Dry upside down in rack
Sanitize with Starsan, drain
Fill when still wet with the Starsan solution

Starsan is a wet contact sanitizer. When the Starsan solution has dried on a surface, it no longer sanitizes.
Dirty bottles or bottles with labels get a soak in PBW, then a good rinse.

 

[yeahfairly]

350 until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

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[C-Rider]

Thanks for the replies. I won't use starsan prior to baking again. The smell stayed with me for several hours. Probably will just use starsan and then dry.

For those curious, we started at 200 degrees for 10 minutes, then up to 285 for 10 minutes, then 350 for 60 minutes. Cooled overnight.

Better yet forget the oven. Just wasting whatever you use to power your oven. This is all you need to do:

1-rince bottle after drinking and let it dry upside down
2-wait til I have 12 bottles cleaned
3-place them in a bucket w/OxyClean
4-when I have another 12 bottles I take out the first batch, lables are gone by then.
5-rince and let drip dry upside down (the 12 that just came out of the oxyClean
6-store the cleaned, de-labled,dry bottles in a closed plastic box
7-soak clean bottles in Star San on bottleing day for a few minutes
7a-put bottle caps in a strainer and dip into StarSan and let drip
8-place bottles on lower rack of dishwasher after spraying StarSan on the rack
9-place bottling bucket on the diswasher
10-fill bottles and place on counter
11-place sanitized caps on bottles and cap.
Easy Squeezy Lemon Peeze. or what ever that means. LOL