Bottle sanitation. Whats safe?

[Deadalus]

You could use bleach to sanitize, unscented. I'm not sure about the splashless bleaches. There's a method that involves vinegar for a no rinse method. Years ago I used just bleach with a rinse with hot water afterwards. Contact time is important from what I remember too, like an hour maybe?

@Bagarge Do you have a bottle washer? Three passes with one of these gets nearly everythingout. Once in a while a little speck of something will be dried up and stuck, so hold up to the light and check afterwards. *This picture does not show the necesssary gasket.

 

[mashdar]

+1 for dishwasher sanitize setting, if you have one. It saves me at least an hour when bottling. Set it going and come back a couple hours later.

I fill bottles above the open dishwasher door. Easy cleanup!

 

[DuncB]

Hah! Haven't seen those around yet.

The next step could be to pressurize them...

I don't have mine work in a vacuum!!
So they all are under pressure.

 

[Shropshire Lad]

It won’t do any harm and the minuscule amount of residue left after rinsing won’t affect the taste.
Sodium meta-bisulphate which is commonly used(for example by me) is fine if one isn’t allergic to sulphites. These can cause rashes and breathing difficulties.
You will find these links helpful which includes previous discussions on here:
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[ncbrewer]

I've tried many methods of bottle cleaning. I was never completely satisfied until I tried a Papazian method. He wrote about cleaning carboys with 2 oz bleach in 5 gallons of water, with an overnight soak. I use this bleach concentration, but scaled down for just the bottles I am cleaning (one session of beer bottles) - still an overnight soak. Hot water rinse the next day with a jet washer. It cleans better than anything else I've tried - spotless and no film. Then on bottling day, I spray one bottle with star san using a vinator, while I'm filling the previous bottle - very little extra time involved. I think the bleach actually sanitizes the bottles, but I give them a shot of Star San to kill anything that may have gotten into them while waiting for bottling day.

 

[Keever Vincent]

Would you recommend starsan as the number one for sterilisation? I have seen its very common for brewers to use.
Is it a no rinse product? If so i will order a bucket load of it for the amount of time it will save me

I used a bucket for years until I realized I only need to soak the item that needs to be clean and have switched to a spray bottle it makes your sanitizer go a lot longer 5 squirt's per bottle with 20oz 3 for 12oz squirt the inside turn them up squirt the outside then bottle away