Bottle Sanitation

[animaldoc]

Two suggestions to help isolate your problems

1) Use carb tabs for a batch. You should have even carbonation, which then indicates poor distribution of priming sugar when you bulk prime. If you still have uneven carbonation then I would look at your capper.

2) Buy two cases of new bottles. Keep in a bucket of starsan and empty them right before you fill them. Fill them wet it's fine. If you still have sanitation issues, replace ALL of your plastic. If you don't, something in the way you are handling your bottles from cleaning to filling is the culprit.

If you have starsan, why are you oven-baking?

[Belgian Inspired]

Two suggestions to help isolate your problems

1) Use carb tabs for a batch. You should have even carbonation, which then indicates poor distribution of priming sugar when you bulk prime. If you still have uneven carbonation then I would look at your capper.

2) Buy two cases of new bottles. Keep in a bucket of starsan and empty them right before you fill them. Fill them wet it's fine. If you still have sanitation issues, replace ALL of your plastic. If you don't, something in the way you are handling your bottles from cleaning to filling is the culprit.

If you have starsan, why are you oven-baking?

I plan on doing a second batch of the moose drool and I will try the carb tabs on that second batch to do a comparison.

All plastic to be replaced this week... story to follow.

The oven bake seemed like a good idea from palmers book. I would clean and then bake to be able to store the bottles. Sounds like I can clean, store upside down until the day of use and rinse.;

[Belgian Inspired]

Here is my udated.....shitty luck recently. I started to bottle the stout last night and my bottling bucket sprung a leak. The threaded part of the tap snapped almost in half. My floor got hammered on over a gallon before I was able to stop the leak. Of couse no leak when it was filled with starsan....it had to take a dump when it was filled with sweet delicious beer.
Now I have to save the moose drool until I can buy a new bottling bucket later this week.
Must be my instant karma....no more talking shit on bottling. I LOVE TO BOTTLE!