I love garage sales - Grolsch bottles!

[dancingbarefoot]

I scored a bunch of Grolsch swing-top bottles at garage sales this morning. (The fact that my brewing equipment is 4500 miles away is only a minor setback. )

What's the best way to sanitize these, out of curiosity?

 

[magno]

I remove the o rings and let the bottles and o rings sit in iodophor for a couple min, then put the o ring back on, then fill the bottles. Not too painful.

- magno

 

[chillHayze]

In Alaska? Put them on your doorstep for two hours in the freezing cold. All bacteria dies!

lol j/k I know it gets warm sometimes there. I just soak them in idophor water for 10 min or so each time. No taking the gaskets off.
I have found that with the taller bottles you should fill a little more than the default - (default=whole bottle minus filling tube space). Put a splash more, filling to about 1-1.5 inches from the top. This leaves less air above the beer to react with it and make that wet paper taste.
Now just to get the rest of your equipment.

 

[dancingbarefoot]

In Alaska? Put them on your doorstep for two hours in the freezing cold. All bacteria dies!

lol j/k I know it gets warm sometimes there.

Yeah, it was 75 at my house today. Toasty!

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I think I'll try Iodophor without taking them apart first. Worth a shot.

 

[homebrewer_99]

I always remove the gaskets. You don't know what's lurking under there.

 

[Brewing Clamper]

Yeah, I like removing the gaskets too... I buy my grolsch bottles from a LHBS that sells USED ones for $1 each with new gaskets. When I removed the old ones from the first batch, ... umm... eww... we'll just say that...

 

[Yooper]

I remove the gaskets, always. If you go to the trouble to sanitize your brewing equipment, your bottles, your racking canes/tubes, etc. you should spend the extra 2 minutes to remove the gaskets, soak them in sanitizer and put them back on. It is worth it. It's not too much of a pain to do it, and you know it's sanitized. There sometimes is some yucky crud hiding underneath.

Lorena

 

[the_bird]

Nice score.

I've been buying these 25oz swing-top bottles of sparkling lemonaid at the grocery store for $2.50. Figure I'd pay a couple bucks for the bottle, even without the beverage inside. They are clear, so I am a little concerned about the beer becoming lightstruck but that's just a matter of being careful. Wish I had them when I bottled my raspberry-maple ale, which has an absolutely gorgeous color.

 

[Exo]

I'm slowly increasing my stock of 1liter EZ-Cap's. Buy a 12-pack case every visit to the LHBS.

Speaking of garages....I'm running out of bottles and have some bottling sessions coming up. So I run out to the garage on the off-chance I had some squirreled away and sure enough....score!!! 2 cases + 1 six-pack.

 

[chillHayze]

Nice score.

I've been buying these 25oz swing-top bottles of sparkling lemonaid at the grocery store for $2.50. Figure I'd pay a couple bucks for the bottle, even without the beverage inside. They are clear, so I am a little concerned about the beer becoming lightstruck but that's just a matter of being careful. Wish I had them when I bottled my raspberry-maple ale, which has an absolutely gorgeous color.

Yep I get those same ones from Target. The lemonade is quite good - a nice bonus to your bottle purchase. The swing mechanisim rusts quickly though.