How do you clean and sanitize your bottles

[CarolusMag]

I have never had anything happen to any of my beers in the bottling process. I admit that I clean my bottles but I do not go crazy with it. As soon as I pour a beer I rinse out the bottle thoroughly before I sit down to enjoy the fruits of my labor. I rinse it AND I leave it full of the slightly soapy water on my sink. The next day or later that night I pour that out and store the bottles in my bottle box. That keeps off the dust. At bottling time I rinse them in tap water again and then swish around a couple ounces of star san solution an hour or so before bottling and figure they are good to go.

I used to bottle brush them out...but I never see any gunk in mine to get out and I notice that the bottle brush ( due to it's shape ) normally does not get the very bottom 1/8th of an inch or so of the bottle anyway.

This might be less tedious than some would recommend...but it seems to work well.

 

[myndflyte]

I rinse out bottles after pouring and clean it as let it dry. 2 days before bottling I rinse again with oxyclean and let dry. The next day I cover with foil and then bake the bottles at 350 F for 1 hour. As long as the foil stays on, they should be able to sit around until you bottle. Technically you could do all this at any time ave as long as the foil stays on, you should have no problems.