Bottle brushes.

[minesapint]

Bottle brushes.
Can anyone recommend a good bottle brush that actually fits beer bottles?
Swing top and crown cork beer bottles, tall and short, any sort of beer bottles but not for demi johns.
I am fed up buying bottle brushes that are ideal for demi johns but need a bit of topiary work on the bristles in order to get them into a beer bottle safely , and leave enough bristles to scrub the insides clean.
I actually broke off a chunk of glass from the neck of a crown cork bottle once when extracting a jammed bottle brush.
Homebrew shops seem to stock massive brushes for demi johns or puny little things for medicine bottles.
Any trade names or shops on the web that actually stock the correct size brushes for beer bottles would be most welcome.

Cheers all.

[gibbiem]

+1 on this like

[neilmcca]

U could always bodge together something similar to a wine degasser...
a foot long piece of wooden dowling with a strip of cloth stapled to the end, stick that in a hand drill and bobs your uncle !

just a suggestion...

[mozza]

The malt millers own one is really good ! You can fit it in the smallest of bottles and it has bristles on the top so it cleans the bottom of the bottle

[Dave-Leeds]

I dont bother with them

just rinse the bottle straight away a few times with hot water.and leave some in overnight then when i get a few stick them in a spare fv full of pbw then star san them all

Works for me never had a problem.

i have seen some bottle brushes for babies bottles which would be idea. Carnt remember where tho might have been wilcos

cheers

[Coffeeuk]

I recently bought the clean bottle express brush off of eBay that you attach to a drill. I hated it at first as it was a tight fit, but once I'd used it a few times I loved it. I did 240 bottles Tuesday, each one had mould stuck to the bottom, there now all super clean and was loads easier than the standard bristle type brush.

I agree with Dave though, I rinse by bottles straight away and then use starsan before bottling.

[beerlover1983]

malt miller for me best one ive had

[Fil]

+1 to rinsing out as soon as you have poured, but if overlooked an overnight soak is a lot less hassle imho..

[Waffty]

Dishwasher with no tablet or rinse aid, followed by a dunking in your nasty killer of choice. Dishwasher will also make short work of the majority of stick on labels. I use london pride bottles and they come off easily.

If it's the odd one or two bottles, then deffo rinse/clean after pouring, makes the job so much easier than if they're left to dry on their own.

[sbond10]

I tried a baby bottle one there too short and wouldn't fit in the neck

[orlando]

I recently bought the clean bottle express brush off of eBay that you attach to a drill.

Was this sourced from the US?

[Coffeeuk]

I recently bought the clean bottle express brush off of eBay that you attach to a drill.

Was this sourced from the US?

No UK seller off of eBay. I'll post the link if you want it

[orlando]

I recently bought the clean bottle express brush off of eBay that you attach to a drill.

Was this sourced from the US?

No UK seller off of eBay. I'll post the link if you want it

Yes please.

[Coffeeuk]

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/390841720010?na ... 0242903326

[minesapint]

Thanks all for the suggestions.
When I have poured a pint I always fill the bottle with water and then leave over night ready for a proper scrub next day.
A rinse is never enough on its own.
If I look carefully through the base of a clear glass beer bottle I always find a trace of yeast coating the base.
Now and again I see a fine peppering on the sides of the bottle
You would not notice it with a brown bottle.
So for me its, rinse the heavy yeast deposit out, fill with water , off to the land of nod for a few hours, kettle on for breakfast , thirty seconds with the bottle brush, rinse and squirt of Starsan , Starsan the old crown cap and crimp it down.
All done before the kettle has boiled for a morning cuppa.

I have found that the bottle opener that I use does not buckle and damage crown caps when opening, so I re use the caps after washing and disinfecting .
I only re use them for storing cleaned bottles , ready for filling. When filled with new beer ,its new caps.
Not very good with computer type processes so I cannot put a picture on here to show you the bottle opener I use. It is one of those metal ones with a corkscrew down the centre, cap opener on top and a couple of lever arms on the sides for levering corks out of bottles.

Back to brushes....... A mate of mine ordered up a couple of brushes from Malt Miller, as recommended. EXCELLENT. Best bottle brush that I have ever had.

Rob The Malt Miller will not get rich selling bottle brushes but he will have a happy following.

Cheers all.