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I'm about to have **three** batches of beer that are ready to be bottled. Time to get off my butt, no?
I think that I'm going to purge some of my older batches; I have leftovers of this and that (including basically an entire case of that disappointing roggenbier). Why hold on to stuff I'm not drinking, right?
I'm considering doing an oven bake of some bottles this time around, just to be absolutely sure everything in them is dead. I imagine those bottles have to be totally dry before they can go into the oven, though. Yes?
Posted 34 days ago.
Yes.
Posted 34 days ago.
My plan is to thoroughly wash the bottles before I do anything. I already rinse them well as soon as I pour the beer, and I have a bottle washer attachment for my sink to ensure that there is no visible dried on crud.
I've wondered about boiling, but man... how long would you have to boil for? And honestly, that sounds like an all day job, as you could only get so many bottles in the pot at once. Then you have to wait for them to cool enough to handle them before you could boil the next batch, no?
Posted 34 days ago.
Nope, you don't need to wait, get some silicone gloves!
Posted 34 days ago.
Rinse with hot water, rinse with starsan. No boiling, baking etc. If you have an avvinatore it's a quick job.
Your roggen, put it in an carboy and add brett C.
Posted 34 days ago.
Edited 34 days ago by ingoogni
Ingoggni, I've done the hot water plus startsan rinse, I do have a vinator. I have had some bottle contamination issues, however, so I'd like to be more sure.
Posted 34 days ago.
Palmer say 340 F for one hour and they are sterilized. I do mine at 350 F for an hour to leave some wiggle room.
Posted 34 days ago.
I grabbed my temps and times from the FDA's foods safety handling guidelines. Granted, they were talking about sterilization and killing spores, so it might not need to be quite that extreme, but 1 hour at 350 seems a little short.
Posted 34 days ago.
Palmer couldn't be wrong, could he?
Posted 34 days ago.
Hehe, never!
Where's my secondary...
Posted 34 days ago.
You sit right now, when I decided to Keg.
Posted 34 days ago.
More often than not, my strongest impulse to get into kegging comes when I've planned poorly and have 10 gallons of beer to bottle.
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