Bottling sequence

[bookers]

Hi all, newbie here. Just doing my first brew ever, when it comes to bottling, do you sanitise, rinse dry and fill or sanitise, rinse and store them for days then bottle
Thanks in advance

 

[michaeld16]

Clean, store until bottling day then rinse sanitise with a no rinse sanitiser, fill bottles

 

[manticle]

Clean. Rinse, sanitise, fill.

What sanitiser are you using?

 

[Bridges]

As per Manticle and if not bulk priming put priming sugar in before beer too... Can be messy otherwise. Over the open dishwasher door is also my preferred bottling locale, no sticky floors afterwards.

 

[bookers]

Using this as sterilizer
So ok to wash, rinse
Then on bottling day, sterilize rinse dry then bottle
Just don't want to mess up first brew

 

[Pogierob]

you don't have to dry it mate,

if the bottles are clean, on bottling day simply
steralize
rinse
drain excess water out of bottle.
add priming sugar (only if you are not bulk priming)
fill with beer.
cap
store.

you want to steralize fairly close to bottling time as if you leave them too long it defeats the purpose.

just ask yourself this question.

Is the container I am putting my beer into as free of potential bugs as possible?

 

[michaeld16]

And if your rinsing how sanitary is the water you are rinsing with, id look into a no rinse sanitiser

 

[bookers]

Thanks guys, big help

 

[Alex.Tas]

Over the open dishwasher door is also my preferred bottling locale, no sticky floors afterwards.

What? You are allowed to do this in the kitchen/house?
Either that or you have a dishwasher in your garage...

 

[Bridges]

Yep in the kitchen. Very forgiving better half who likes my beer so I can get away with a bit.

 

[Grott]

And if your rinsing how sanitary is the water you are rinsing with, id look into a no rinse sanitiser

Spot on, if you use a steriliser that has to be rinsed then the sterilisation is only as good as what you rinse with.

 

[technobabble66]

Ditto above. You need to get a no-rinse sanitizer.
"Starsan" is what most of us use ( I believe). It's fantastic. A small bottle can last years. Dilute 5ml to 3L roughly, then spray or splash it onto anything that needs sanitizing. It's a type of ( phosphoric ?) acid that takes about 30secs to basically sanitize something.
So you get a funnel and 50-200ml of your starsan solution. Pour into first bottle. Shake. Using funnel pour into second bottle. Shake. Repeat until all bottles are done. All sanitized easily and quickly using a tiny amount of solution. No rinsing needed!
Also sanitize your lids in some of the solution. And bottling wand/tubes, taps, etc
You need some!

 

[Mr B]

If you are doing lots of bottles, a bottle tree and sanitiser pump (squirter - what are they called??) is well worth the $80 or so investment. Will save you heaps of time.

 

[ianh]

1 drink beer
2 wash 2-3 times with tap water
3 allow to drain dry
4 cap, I use PET bottles
5 refill with beer
6 add required dextrose
7 store
repeat

 

[michaeld16]

1 drink beer
2 wash 2-3 times with tap water
3 allow to drain dry
4 cap, I use PET bottles
5 refill with beer
6 add required dextrose
7 store
repeat

No sanitiser?

 

[MartinOC]

If you are doing lots of bottles, a bottle tree and sanitiser pump (squirter - what are they called??) is well worth the $80 or so investment. Will save you heaps of time.

$80!?!?!? More like $25-$30!

Ah, bugger it, I'm going to weigh-in here...

Clean all your bottles in bulk. Rinse them in bulk. Sanitise them in bulk with Starsan etc. Put a small square of aluminium foil over the top of each bottle, then put them away until needed. The whole thing will take you an afternoon of drinking beer & listening to the radio.

When you're ready to go, just pull the foil off & bottle your beer as usual.

I do this with 7-8 Doz. bottles at a time & I've never had a problem with bottle infections.

 

[Mr B]

$80!?!?!? More like $25-$30!

Ah, bugger it, I'm going to weigh-in here...

Clean all your bottles in bulk. Rinse them in bulk. Sanitise them in bulk with Starsan etc. Put a small square of aluminium foil over the top of each bottle, then put them away until needed. The whole thing will take you an afternoon of drinking beer & listening to the radio.

When you're ready to go, just pull the foil off & bottle your beer as usual.

I do this with 7-8 Doz. bottles at a time & I've never had a problem with bottle infections.

$75 new where I live, locally bought. If you can get them for $30 your doing pretty farking well. Maybe secondhand if your patient.

The point is It will make it easier and faster.

 

[Grott]

Personally I don't like bottle trees as the bottles are secured by having the prongs going inside the bottles, therefore the prongs must be well cleaned and sanitised (another job). Also any draining goes in to the tray at the bottom, on hot days this evaporates and can go into the bottles which are pointing down. I use a wire basket that I put bottles in after rinsing out/cleaning or sanitising. The bottles are secured from the outside and when using not on the sink place newspaper underneath for the drips- works a treat.
Cheers

Ps sorry about the photo not being the best, only one I had at this time)

 

[panspermian]

I put sanitise solution into a spray bottle and spray my bottling tree before hanging.
I also spray around the fermenter tap and that bottling stick thing.

 

[takai]

Anyone used the Fastrack thing for bottling:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DDFGRVU/

I currently use a spray bottle and swirl Phosphoric acid blend sanitiser around the bottle and then drain and fill. Grabbing a bottling tree and vinator off here to speed up the process slightly, but also considering the Fastrack as well.

I probably shouldnt invest too much in it, given i keg most of mine and just bottle age some.