Beer Sanitizer
Home Preparation Tips – Disinfection your bottles and equipment
Before the beer bottle, you have to sanitize the bottles, otherwise the bacteria can form in the bottle and ruin the whole batch.
The first step of the process is to prepare a place for bottles to sit while being disinfected. This should be a place that can hold 50 bottles of sugar beet. In home brewing, the best place for this is the bathtub. To prepare the bath, rub bleach the tub first, then fill with water and a bottle of bleach. Let it sit for a day and rinse.
The second step is to make another mix bleach and water. This mixture should be about one teaspoon of bleach per gallon. If doing this in a bathtub, is about 2 cups of water. The proportion of this mixture have to be perfect, so not too bound by what is accurate.
Then put the bottles in the bath (or whatever you are using to keep the mixture), making sure that the inside of the bottles are filled with the solution. Any other equipment used in the packaging process must be in the tub with bottles. All you have to sit in the solution for about 20-30 minutes.
Rinse the bottles very well. Bacteria can spoil the batch of beer, so bleach unnecessary left in the bottle. When rinsing, do not touch the edge of the bottle with your hands. Move the bottles to touch on the outside. Continue to hold the bottles health until the beer has a ceiling.
About the Author
Pat McLoughlin is a avid homebrewer and enjoys writing about it on his website homebrewhints.com. Home Brew Hints gives step by step instructions on how to brew beer at home as well as a collection of helpful hints that can assist you in your homebrewing process.
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