Grolsch bottles

[Canadianbrewer2012]

Hey I just picked up 4 dozen grolsch bottles for my first brew.. I have had them all soak over night in diversol, put them through a cycle in my dish washer then stored them upside down in some crates to dry completely .. Bottling day is three days from now and I'm wondering what I need to do to these things before I fill them with beer... Do I just soak them in an iodophor solution and fill them up from there? Do they need to be completely dry of the solution before filled? And some of them still seem to have a little bit of " fogginess" to the bottom of the glass where I can't seem to get my brush to remedy thoroughly... Is this going to be a problem?

 

[Lennie]

A brief soak in Iodophor is good, letting them drain as completely as possible is good although they don't have to be bone dry, and the fogginess might be remedied with some vinegar but if nothing takes it off it should be OK to use the bottles.

 

[Canadianbrewer2012]

Thanks! ... This is a lot of work .. I think that the fogginess is calcium stain from the previous owner as he was an avid brewer and would have rinsed his bottles after every use ... I think they were sitting some time with remnants of tap water left inside causing the staining ... I will take your advice and just dunk em in iodophor before filling

 

[SamHain]

I got a bunch of nasty, real nasty... Grolsch bottles from a guy who made homemade rum. I filled up my bottling bucket with Oxyclean and warm H2O and filled the bottles up and had em sit a few days. Then I put them in the diswasher on sanitize cycle with star san. They came out crystal clear after rinsing with my bottle washer, then I just no rinse sanitize them on bottling day.

 

[Canadianbrewer2012]

That sounds right Sam .. Mine are still in great shape just a bit of that fogginess inside ... Very excited to use them

 

[Lennie]

I get a fog sometimes from Oxyclean, and beer can leave something called beerstone that is a calcium salt. The acid in vinegar will clean this off, you juts have to rinse good afterwards. Sanitize right before filling.

I like the ceramic caps, I have a dozen 1L bottles with these caps. You can get replacement gaskets if yours are hard or cracked.