Nick JD
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I rinse my PET bottles out after decanting with five rinses. I don't sterilize them at all, just two rinses of 60 degree + tap water.
So far, I've had maybe five bottles that were infected ... ever, in twenty years of brewing.
I reckon that's a small price to pay for the hundreds of hours I've saved my not being too paranoid about bottle infection. Yeast is a pretty efficient bacteria-killer - so's alcohol.
However, I sterilize the living crap out of my fermenter. No alcohol or bounding yeast when the tasty stuff goes in the barrel.
So far, I've had maybe five bottles that were infected ... ever, in twenty years of brewing.
I reckon that's a small price to pay for the hundreds of hours I've saved my not being too paranoid about bottle infection. Yeast is a pretty efficient bacteria-killer - so's alcohol.
However, I sterilize the living crap out of my fermenter. No alcohol or bounding yeast when the tasty stuff goes in the barrel.
