Cheesefood
Well-Known Member
OK, I brewed and bottled today.
To sanitize my equipment, I filled up my bottling bucket with hose water and added about 6 tbsp of Clorox bleach to the 6.5 gallons of water. I let everything sit for about 10 minutes.
Got my bottles ready. Half were new, half were used. Most of the used were nasty.
Filled the new bottles with bleach water and let them sit for about 10 minutes. Filled the nasties as well and let them sit for 5 while I dumped the water from my new bottles back into the bucket. Dumped my nasties out (not in the water) and used the bottling brush when needed. Refilled all with the "clean" bleach water.
I didn't rinse the bottles before filling with beer, but I did shake them all out to make sure I got out as much bleach water as possible. I may have forgotten to shake out some of them as well as I could, but they were pretty empty. Non of them had standing water in them.
I know that the bleach was diluted enough to not poison anyone on the first sip, but I'm just hoping that it won't make it taste bad enough to ruin it all together.
The new bottles are 22 oz, so anything that was left should be pretty diluted.
I'm figuring that I'll crack a 12 oz in a week. If it's carbonated, then obviously the leftover bleach water wasn't strong enough to damage the beer.
To sanitize my equipment, I filled up my bottling bucket with hose water and added about 6 tbsp of Clorox bleach to the 6.5 gallons of water. I let everything sit for about 10 minutes.
Got my bottles ready. Half were new, half were used. Most of the used were nasty.
Filled the new bottles with bleach water and let them sit for about 10 minutes. Filled the nasties as well and let them sit for 5 while I dumped the water from my new bottles back into the bucket. Dumped my nasties out (not in the water) and used the bottling brush when needed. Refilled all with the "clean" bleach water.
I didn't rinse the bottles before filling with beer, but I did shake them all out to make sure I got out as much bleach water as possible. I may have forgotten to shake out some of them as well as I could, but they were pretty empty. Non of them had standing water in them.
I know that the bleach was diluted enough to not poison anyone on the first sip, but I'm just hoping that it won't make it taste bad enough to ruin it all together.
The new bottles are 22 oz, so anything that was left should be pretty diluted.
I'm figuring that I'll crack a 12 oz in a week. If it's carbonated, then obviously the leftover bleach water wasn't strong enough to damage the beer.