Thursday, October 16, 2008

Washing Bottles, Not lucky enough to own a keg system.

Well after stuffing around for ages finally got around to washing out bottles which probably has to be the most tedious part of brewing, apart from waiting for it being ready to drink.
The things i have found here are that you can never scrub as hard and fast as you want especially if the bottles are hot from the water being added. So to overcome this problem get a good quality bottle bruch and chop the wired top so that has no handle and attach to a power drill, preferable keyless chuck drill with multiple settings. This prove a highly effective and through way of ensuring that the bottles get cleaned on all surfaces.
Second ensure the bottle brush bristles don't melt! This happened with the new brush purchased recently when had almost boiling water in bottles to sterilise, place brush in bottles and removed and bristles had shrunk to half the size. Not sure if this was type of brush that was purchased as old bottle brush never had this problem.
Anyway now to wait a month or so and will have a batch ready to go.

1 comment:

Orbie said...

Ha ha. An electric bottle brush. What a neat idea!

I've washed a fair few bottles in my time but I've never noticed the brush melting! Unsuitable type of plastic in the new brush?

Jen