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Not too bad down here.

Blew the bottom out of most of them and also distorted the top so they are now oval. Suspect they won’t seal.

23l of MJ American IPA. 1105lts.

Nope certainly didn’t take it that way.

23lts of mangrove jacks American IPA.

No I washed them on Saturday and posted on Sunday. First and only time if made the error though. Tend to learn from mistakes and don’t repeat the error.

Nope only did it the once with the PET bottles. I have washed my glass bottles in the dishwasher. New bottles now filled and conditioning. I got the original PET bottles second hand with my first lot of fermentation gear. They were already a little battered. If only used them for the wife’s...

Thanks for the reply’s guys. bottles arrived this afternoon so will be bottling tomorrow morning. Then the next batch of beer on in the afternoon.

Today I became a twin fermentation cabinet brewer. 😂 This will allow for faster turn around. The small fridge used for bottle conditioning and the larger for the snubnose fermenter.

Hi guys. I have a new batch of PET bottles arriving tomorrow. Just wanted your thoughts on how clean they are from new. What do you guys do with new plastic bottles. 1. just sanitise with starsan and fill. 2. wash with cleaner then starsan. My thoughts are they should be clean and only...

Funny, the wife said that afterwards. 😂 And I can’t believe I didn’t see it coming either.

Just a word of warning. I put 40 used PET bottles in the dishwasher on Saturday just to give them a quick clean prior to bottling 40 pints of cider. I had previously done it with glass bottles and thought it would be a quick pain free way to rinse them prior to use, they had already been...

I use a bottle full of starsan. Put the gun I. That while I cap the one I just filled.

23lt mangrove jacks elderflower & lime cider. Total. 44

I have a bottling gun that connects to the CO2 cylinder. Tip goes in the bottle, puff of CO2 the bottom fill. Due to fermenting under pressure the beer already has some CO2 dissolved it so not wanting to over carb it. Early days to see how clear it is yet. Only bottled yesterday. No reason to...