So far my washer has been working well, after dialing in my cleaning process. Some of my older bottles which have been used dozens of times have developed a film that wasn't coming out. I ended up with a process of soaking them in a strong bleach solution for an hour, rinse, then wash for an hour with a moderately strong pbw solution, then blast rinse with hot tap water. This routine is a lot of work but results in sparkling clean bottles. The bleach soak takes place in a plastic tote next to the sink, while a load of them washes in pbw, so the 'cycle time' is 60 minutes for 16 grimy bottles. I wish it could handle 24 at a time but 16 is working well with the limited space I have available. I added a few drops of fermcap to the pbw solution to eliminate foaming, and twist each bottle 90 degrees every 10 minutes during the wash cycle. After doing this all day long I feel like rosie the robot but I have just over 200 ready-to-use clean bottles to show for it.
I really need to get into kegging.
