bottle washers and draining trees

[pongobilly]

are these bottle washing things any good and the bottle trees?????

[PieOPah]

From looking at the bottle trees there is no reason why they shouldn't be any good. After all it is purely there so let your bottles drip.

I couldn't comment on the washer as I haven't had either. I do however want to get one as it would seem to be able to take a lot of the work out of sanitizing bottles.

[pongobilly]

but surely just a quick blast in a bottle washer isnt going to sanitise the bottles as good as soaking them in solution fo 30mins or so

[maxashton]

If you use something like star-san, or iodophor, you only need like 30 seconds contact time.

With star san, even the foam is effective, and doesn't need to be rinsed.

[prolix]

I use a dowel with a scouring sponge secured to the end, from D Lines book and iodine soln. bottles come up great and quick too. thought about a bottle tree but the iodine is no rinse so no problem, rinse with soln, drain and just invert before filling to remove any excess water.

I also rinse my bottles straight after pouring.

[PieOPah]

I rinse my bottles straight after pouring (or very soon after depending how may have been consumed).

After that I find a quick rinse with water followed by a rinse with Iodophor is more than enough - never had a problem.

[Frothy]

Tree is great
Don't bother with the spray nozzle as a hand spray does just as well.
spray bottle
I personally perfer to remove the down tube and use the gun upside down.
A quick spray is definately far easier than soaking loads of bottles and if you move to a no rinse sanitizer - even better.


Frothy

[PieOPah]

I personally perfer to remove the down tube and use the gun upside down.

Frothy

Will have to give this a try

[maxashton]

Tree is great
Don't bother with the spray nozzle as a hand spray does just as well.
spray bottle
I personally perfer to remove the down tube and use the gun upside down.
A quick spray is definately far easier than soaking loads of bottles and if you move to a no rinse sanitizer - even better.


Frothy

Loaded with iodophor solution? Sounds handy.

I think i'm going to bottle a few to distribute among the willing.

[Andy]

On brewday I always have a 1L spray bottle full of iodophor solution available....

[maxashton]

I knew i should have bought some bloody iodophor.