Procedures for cleaning bottles

[Desrever]

soak in a rubber maid tub with PBW - Bottle brush and green scrubby - rinse - store in boxes - run in dishwasher night before bottling -use vinator and replace in dishwasher - bottle -wait -DRINK! -rinse - place in dishwasher. repeat

 

[bigbeergeek]

Bottle brush and green scrubby

You should rinse your bottles out three times with hot water before storing them -- that will retire your bottling brush. Soak them overnight in hot water and oxyclean and you can swap out the scrubby for a washcloth -- simply to wipe off the tiniest bit of glue residue (all the labels float off by themselves).

 

[bovineblitz]

Rinse after drinking, oxyclean soak, scrape any tough remnants of labels off with butter knife, rinse 3x (I take the head off my shower, shove a 3/16 tube into the hole, and use that as a quick and easy rinsing method), store in a box. @bottling, starsan with vinator, hang on bottling tree, fill.

I probably would have stopped brewing without a vinator. I don't like the idea of putting my bottles in a dishwasher with residual soap, plus I don't think much water would get into all the bottles... dry heat isn't a very good sanitizer.

 

[cruizer8]

I clean my bottles similar to DistrbdChemist. I let my bottles soak overnight in a bleach or oxyclean solution. I then put a small piece of foil on the top and cook it in the oven at 340° for an hour. Let them cool and then come bottling time, just remove the foil and fill. Doing it this way allows me to clean them whenever and have a fresh supply of sterilized bottles when I need them.

Here are a couple pics of the process.