Pasteurizing Larger Bottles

[AngryAndy]

I've read the sticky on how to pasteurize bottles on the stove top. But these are the steps for pasteurizing regular 12oz bottles. I plan to bottle my cider in larger bottles. Maybe 750ml or 1L bottles. Anyone no how long the bottles need to rest in the hot water for?

 

[JDGator]

i used my ag brewing setup. burner and 80L pot to do 750ml bottles of cider and it worked well.

 

[flatlanderHQ]

Why not just use iodophor? Spray bottle, 2 minutes, drain, and bottle away.


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[freisste]

He's talking about using heat to kill the yeast in a filled bottle, to have a carbed-but-sweet cider.

 

[KeyWestBrewing]

5 mins @ 140f is close(over by a few minutes) to the standard for beer/wine pasteurization. Pasteurizing longer than needed degrades flavor.

http://www.niroinc.com/gea_liquid_processing/pasteurization.asp

http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-beer-edu/beer-pasteurization-aid-123.html

Do yourself a favor and do all the pasteurizing in a cooler. You can do more bottles at once and its a lot safer. Simply add strike water to cooler, add bottles, close cooler and wait. This will contain any bottle bombs should one happen making clean up easier and the process safer.

 

[AngryAndy]

Thank you. The cooler is a great idea. So just pour the 140f water in a cooler and put the bottles in for the time required? Thx

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

Thank you. The cooler is a great idea. So just pour the 140f water in a cooler and put the bottles in for the time required? Thx

Won't work, as your bottles' thermal mass will stabilize the temperature to a lower temp.

MC

 

[william_shakes_beer]

I just pop my cider bottles in the dishwasher and run it with the sanitize setting on. As a bonus, it gets the stickyness off as well!!!

 

[JimRausch]

Key West beat me to it. The cooler pasteurization method works well and is easy, but as Canuck says the bottles will cool down the water so when I did it last Fall, I added 170* water and let them sit until cooled down.
Worked perfectly- slightly sweet, slightly carbonated Graf.