Bottle Rinser/Washers

[TitanicStruggle]

Does anyone use or would they recommend something like this for Rinsing bottles. My current approach is to soak in Milton sterilizing solution for a while and rinse each bottle under the tap but it's painfully slow, could do with streamlining the process :-P

 

[MyQul]

Bottle washer was one of the best bits of equipment I ever bought. Speeds the process up no end. If you ever upgrade to star san you can just fill the washer with it, a few pumps and put the bottle on the bottle tree to drain and done. I do about 60 bottles in about 30 mins while I'm waiting for any sediment to settle out in the bottling bucket

I'm also currently dealing with a wild yeast infection in my bottles using bleach. You have to rinse bleach off extremely thoroughly. I'd had to have to do it by simply running the bottle under the tap

 

[bquiggerz]

If you are using glass bottles have you not tried ovening then? To deal with the wild yeast I mean. It would denature the enzymes that they need to live. Just a thought @MyQul

 

[MyQul]

If you are using glass bottles have you not tried ovening then? To deal with the wild yeast I mean. It would denature the enzymes that they need to live. Just a thought @MyQul

Didn't really think of that - Although I did consider using boiling water. Ovening would definately kill the wild yeast I think. Mmm. Might give it a go. - 15 mins at max temp? Thanks bquiggerz :thumb:

 

[clibit]

I clean bottles as I use them and then use a bottle rinser with Starsan on bottling day, it has speeded things up a lot. Rack the beer onto the priming solution and then do the bottles to allow the sugar some time to mingle.

 

[MyQul]

I clean bottles as I use them and then use a bottle rinser with Starsan on bottling day, it has speeded things up a lot.

I do this too. I just rinse out the bottle after I've poured a beer. So much easier than rinsing a batch of 40+ bottles on bottling day

 

[clibit]

I rinse the bottle out when I pour, and then wash and rinse the bottle thoroughly. Then store in clean boxes and just rinse with Starsan before bottling. Possibly overkill, but most of it is done piecemeal, when I drink, when i wash up, a bottle or three at a time.

 

[DoctorMick]

Bottle washer was one of the best bits of equipment I ever bought. Speeds the process up no end. If you ever upgrade to star san you can just fill the washer with it, a few pumps and put the bottle on the bottle tree to drain and done. I do about 60 bottles in about 30 mins while I'm waiting for any sediment to settle out in the bottling bucket

What this man said, definitely a worth while investment.

 

[clibit]

You can get much cheaper bottle rinsers here:

http://www.brewsmarter.co.uk/bottlecarboydemijohn-brushes-washers-rinsers-fillers-drainers-176-c.asp

And probably other places.

 

[MyQul]

You can get much cheaper bottle rinsers here:

http://www.brewsmarter.co.uk/bottlecarboydemijohn-brushes-washers-rinsers-fillers-drainers-176-c.asp

And probably other places.

I've got the yellow one in the link. Came to about £10 with P&P was the cheapest one I could find on the interweb

 

[bquiggerz]

Didn't really think of that - Although I did consider using boiling water. Ovening would definately kill the wild yeast I think. Mmm. Might give it a go. - 15 mins at max temp? Thanks bquiggerz :thumb:

Yeah sounds like a plan, let me know how it goes and remember to put the bottles in as you turn on oven on so as not to shock them and break them. In other words no preheating the oven.

 

[TitanicStruggle]

That's great, thanks for the link, I think I will pick one of them up with some starsan. I do clean the bottles out as and when they get drank but then batch sanitize them and rinse out again before bottling. Possibly overkill but covers me when I haven't washed the bottle out as thoroughly as I should, like I said, takes ages though. No rinse starsan is a must purchase.

 

[clibit]

I have not regretted shelling out for Starsan. A bottle last for ages. Makes all sanitation much easier, I used to use diluted bleach and then rinse everything. Someone posted a while ago that they never sterilise bottles, just wash well, and never had problems. I can imagine that is true, but the extra stage of squirting the bottles with a bottle rinser is very quick and easy. And the more we do to eradicate unwanted lifeforms, the better, I'm sure.

 

[MyQul]

Yeah sounds like a plan, let me know how it goes and remember to put the bottles in as you turn on oven on so as not to shock them and break them. In other words no preheating the oven.

Thanks for the headz up on not preheating the oven. I wasn't going to anyway but not because of the reason you state but because I don't want to burn my hands trying to get 30 glass bottles in to the oven.

I'm going to soak them in oxyclean now, rinse then put them in the oven this evening. I plan on putting them in there turning the oven up to 200C (is that too hot? Will it break the bottles?) leaving them for about 30 or 40 mins for the oven to heat up and give it time to kill any yeast then turn the oven off and leave it for an hour or so (or until I can touch the bottles with my bare hands)

I then plan on giving each bottle a little cap of cling film then storing them away in the usual place under the long side board till bottling day. Then santise with star san as usual

 

[clibit]

My mate soaks his bottles in water with some clothes washing liquid, he reckons that shifts all the dirt off them really well.

 

[MyQul]

Because it's reuseable I've had my bottle of star san for nearly two years and it's still nearly half full

 

[MyQul]

My mate soaks his bottles in water with some clothes washing liquid, he reckons that shifts all the dirt off them really well.

Oxy clean is the bollox for doing that. I'm just about to do some bottles now

 

[bquiggerz]

Anything over 120°C will do it, personally I'd go around 150 and probably no hotter. I'd suggest 40 mins then you should be done. I've made jam in the past and broke many jars on 200. Hope that helps.

 

[MyQul]

Anything over 120°C will do it, personally I'd go around 150 and probably no hotter. I'd suggest 40 mins then you should be done. I've made jam in the past and broke many jars on 200. Hope that helps.

Cheers mate. I need all the help I can get as I've never put anything glass in the oven before

 

[bquiggerz]

Cheers mate. I need all the help I can get as I've never put anything glass in the oven before

Its no problem :) I've learnt a lot on here, so I may as well use my knowledge and help other people where I can.