New time saving setup

[fun4stuff]

I don’t see much point in using a dishwasher for bottles- especially if you’re only bottling a few beers here and there. It’s not saving you time or really accomplishing anything, except for maybe risking leaving detergent or other food particles behind within a he bottle.

It’s much faster to just rinse the bottle
Out immediately after using and then spraying it out with sanitizer with a spray bottle.

If I had a lot of clean bottles to sanitize all at once (and was all out of starsan), I’d use the oven and set to appropriate temperature and heat for the appropriate amount of time. If for some reason i didn’t have an oven, then I’d use a dishwasher without soap and rinse bottles on the sanitize setting and make sure the strainer in the bottom of the dishwasher was clean.

If i has a lot of old dirty bottles with dried crap in them, I’d soak them all in oxyclean and then rinse by hand.

 

[AzOr]

You could also split your brew days.
I mash one night and do my boil the next night.
It doesn’t really save time, however it does allow me brew during the week after the kiddos are sleeping.
I’ve even left my wort sitting on my patio for three days. It formed a pellicle but after boil it was delicious.

Maybe you could look into the Aussie no chill method combined with a Kveik strain.

 

[kh54s10]

Way off OP, but doesn't dishwasher detergent mess up head retention? Even if you don't add any detergent, there is plenty of residual detergent. Just run a cycle without any additional detergent and open the door mid-cycle and you'll see the suds. At least I do. Hence the reason I've never tried using the dishwasher as a bottle washer nor do I put my beer glasses in the dishwasher. Truth or another brewing myth?

~HopSing.

I don't know how the detergent would affect head retention in a beer after sanitizing the bottle and bottle conditioning.. But I can tell you that dishwasher detergent does mess up head retention. I put my beer glasses in the dishwasher. The first beer will have a little head that doesn't last long. The second beer has twice as much head and the third has twice as much as that.

 

[HopSing]

I can tell you that dishwasher detergent does mess up head retention. I put my beer glasses in the dishwasher. The first beer will have a little head that doesn't last long. The second beer has twice as much head and the third has twice as much as that.

So the moral of the story is IF you wash your beer glasses in the dishwasher the first 3 don't count. I think I can get on-board with that approach.

~HopSing.

 

[WestMichBrewer]

...If I had a lot of clean bottles to sanitize all at once (and was all out of starsan), I’d...

FWIW: I soak mine in the laundry tub with Oxy, then submerge them in my bottling bucket filled with StarSan for 3 minutes, then drain and fill. It's tedious but I keg most of my 3 gallon batches.