You guess correctly. There's a reason why almost every thread in the Beginner Beer Brewing Forum contains the advice "sanitize thoroughly." Many people do use their dishwashers to sanitize, but if you've used Jet Dry or a similar agent in your dishwasher recently, it will leave behind a residue in your bottles. I'm also going to hope that you didn't add dishwasher soap.
We really do mean for you to sanitize thoroughly everything that comes in contact with your beer post boil. This includes bottles, caps, tubing, bottling buckets, bottling wands, everything.
i saturate everything else in "one step" and no dishwasher soap !
see this is where i run into trouble
yeast package says 59-72 degrees is ok...NOT over 65 is ill advised !
aerate wort....NOT shake the living poop outta it !
dishwasher says it sanitizes....NOT must use chemicals !
kits are the way to go for the beginner....NOT the ingredients are not fresh !
wort chiller isnt needed....NOT you will be waiting for hours !
one week in primary.....NOT gotta wait at least 3 !
3 weeks in the bottle....NOT it will likely take much longer !
i could go on.
i have cooked all my life and i am very comfortable in a kitchen and i have learned most dishes have a wide tolerance with ingredients and such. beer brewing was explained to me as a relatively simple process. this is not true. there are a lot of subtle things you can to do make you beer inferior (notice i did not say RUINED) beer brewing is much more like baking. not very much tolerance with those recipes !
sorry, just venting frustration. i am enjoying the learning curve process but when you waste $50 in ingredients each time you learn something and still end up with no beer it kinda sucks.
im off to the distributor to buy a keg of commercial beer...that 50.00 will be in my belly soon !
and after i lick my wounds i am going to buy a big tub to soak my bottles in and pick up a few KILOS of one step !