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Clean bottle after pour. Sanitise, rinse and prime on bottling day. I should mention I only use 1l bottles swingtop or plastic. Eurospin is great for 1l bottles of beer in plastic.
 
I have no problems with head retention using the dishwasher, just give a quick rinse before sanitising on bottleing day. I thought I'd share my bottle drainer as it's smaller than a bottle tree and so much easier to store underneath my dedicated wahing up bowl. Great for the folks that don't have much space to store there kit.
 
I use PET bottles, rinse after use warm water cap on give a good shake and rinse again then store cap off.

When I got to use them I fill 2 plastic FV buckets with Milton and hot water leave for an hour rinse and drain with this https://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/fast-rack-24-combo-drainer.html
i got it used and its ok but might upgrade to a bottle tree.

For storage I use plastic boxes from asda as can get 20 500ml PET bottles and seal with a lid
 
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I’ve been bottling today, so my thoughts:

Always rinse well after finishing a bottle. Occasionally friends return bottles that haven’t been rinsed and contain a bit of accumulated crud. 24 hours with a bleach solution fixes this (followed obviously with an extra, extra rinse).

On bottling day, I’ll give a final clean with Oxi and rinse each bottle three times.

A spray of Chemsan for the bottles & caps and then cap.

My first hand capper lasted for over 4,000 bottles and then failed. The replacement started to fail after another 1,000.

I invested in a bench capper and am very pleased with it. The only bother is adjusting it for different height bottles, so I now separate my bottles by size and mark them with a spot of nail varnish.

There are 5 different heights of 500 bottles and I (usually) pick one size so that they are all the same.

This was a 12% beer so (unusually) I wanted smaller bottles, hence the mix.
 
Always rinse well after finishing a bottle. Occasionally friends return bottles that haven’t been rinsed and contain a bit of accumulated crud. 24 hours with a bleach solution fixes this (followed obviously with an extra, extra rinse).


What bleach dilution do you use when this happens? I've got a set of returned bottles I'm really struggling with, but haven't tried bleach as yet...
 
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