Sterilising bottles

[-Bezza-]

I often refer back to this link: https://lifefermented.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/brew-tips-cloudy-starsan/

It's perhaps a bit unscientific but reasonably concise, hence why I like it! It says:

1) Starsan is a yeast nutrient in diluted quantities (by which I believe it means a little bit making its way into beer is a good thing rather than diluting per instructions)
2) It kills fungus and bacteria (yeast is part of the fungus family)

It links to a podcast with the makers of the stuff, which might be worth a listen if you're that way inclined.

Hopefully there's something a little more conclusive out there that someone can link to.

 

[Nicks90]

I am utterly bone idle with my sanitation and how I haven't died of ebola is beyond me.
After pouring a pint I give the bottle a rinse
It then gets dumped in my (slightly damp and mouldy) cellar until I have another brew to bottle.
Bottles then get a cursory rinse in hot soapy water using whatever washing up liquid swmbo has bought - strawberry at the moment - then rinsed in a a spare fv filled with warm water and a few Milton tabs

Bottles are left until there whilst I have a brew.
They get another cursory rinse in cold water and the bottling commences.

Do I have problems with head retention?
Nope
Do I taste vinyl?
Nope
Do I taste Milton?
Nope
Are they infected?
Probably... But even after 6 months in the bottle they taste amazing. Bacterial infections don't breed anaerobically and therefore don't ruin the beer. It has to be a really awful infection to ruin a finished bottled beer

 

[DavidDetroit]

strawberry at the moment

You can make a fruit beer!